{"id":56578,"date":"2026-03-23T08:45:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=56578"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:45:49","slug":"gold-prices-drop-by-more-than-3-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=56578","title":{"rendered":"Gold prices drop by more than 3 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gold prices fell by more than 3% on Monday, continuing their decline to their lowest level in nearly four months. Spot gold dropped 3.3% to $4,340.09 per ounce, marking its ninth consecutive session of losses. The metal, which hit its lowest level since January 2nd today, fell by more than 10% last week.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. gold futures for April delivery dropped 5% to $4,347. Meanwhile, market expectations that the Federal Reserve (the U.S. central bank) will raise interest rates this year have increased, with interest rate futures estimating a 27% probability of a rate hike by December.<\/p>\n<p>In other precious metals, spot silver fell 3.3% to $65.55 per ounce. Spot platinum declined 4.4% to $1,838.45, while palladium fell 0.4% to $1,398.50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold prices fell by more than 3% on Monday, continuing their decline to their lowest level in nearly four months. Spot gold dropped 3.3% to $4,340.09 per ounce, marking its ninth consecutive session of losses. The metal, which hit its lowest level since January 2nd today, fell by more than 10% last week. U.S. gold &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economie-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}