{"id":2247,"date":"2013-05-20T11:41:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2013-05-20T11:41:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:41:56","slug":"gold-slump-hits-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=2247","title":{"rendered":"Gold slump hits silver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Clementine Wallop and Francesca Freeman<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2248\" title=\"goldsilv\" src=\"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/goldsilv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/goldsilv.jpg 225w, https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/goldsilv-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Gold&#8217;s longest slump since the financial crisis stretched into its eighth day Monday, while silver briefly tumbled to its lowest level since September 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Falling appetite for the safe haven of gold has pushed the metal&#8217;s value down 20% since the start of the year, as fading inflation fears and the recovering economy have drawn investors toward other securities.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest drop on Monday occurred in silver, which plunged nearly 9% in the first 10 minutes of Asian trading. It later recouped some losses to trade down 2.7%. Trading volumes for silver are lower than those for gold, and are therefore more susceptible to sharp moves. Gold was trading at $1,350.80 an ounce on the European spot market, down 0.6% on the day. The metal earlier hit a one-month low at $1,338.10 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324787004578494491392120094.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading . . .<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold&#8217;s longest slump since the financial crisis stretched into its eighth day Monday, while silver briefly tumbled to its lowest level since September 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}