{"id":97153,"date":"2026-01-12T11:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=97153"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:35:24","slug":"gold-and-silver-prices-hit-historic-highs-in-the-international-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/gold-rates\/gold-and-silver-prices-hit-historic-highs-in-the-international-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold and silver prices hit historic highs in the international market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/gold-rates\/gold-rates-climb-fresh-new-high-in-pakistan-latest-rates-on-january-12\/\">Gold<\/a> and silver prices have hit new record highs due to geopolitical and economic uncertainty at the global level.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the price of gold crossed the $4,600 per ounce mark for the first time in history, while silver also touched its highest level.<\/p>\n<p>Spot gold prices in the global market rose 1.3 percent to $4,469.49 per ounce, while gold also hit a record high of $4,600.33 during trading. US gold futures for February delivery were trading at $4,591.10, up 2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>According to senior market analysts, the main reason for the rise in gold and silver prices is geopolitical risks and global political tensions, which have attracted investors to safe investments.<\/p>\n<p>Weak US jobs data also strengthened expectations that the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates at least twice this year, boosting demand for non-yielding metals, especially gold and silver. A weaker dollar also supported precious metals.<\/p>\n<p>Silver, on the other hand, rose 3.5% to $82.72 an ounce, after hitting a session high of $83.96. Platinum also rose 3.2% to $2,345.40 an ounce, after hitting a high of $2,478.50 last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Gold and silver prices have hit new record highs due to geopolitical and economic uncertainty at the global level. On Monday, the price of gold crossed the $4,600 per ounce mark for the first time in history, while silver also touched its highest level. Spot gold prices in the global market rose 1.3 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":9669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14814],"tags":[33525],"class_list":["post-97153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gold-rates","tag-gold-and-silver-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97154,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97153\/revisions\/97154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}