{"id":21,"date":"2026-07-13T08:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:04:41","slug":"gold-slides-further-from-record-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Gold Slides Further From Record Highs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gold extended its retreat this week, falling for a fourth straight session and settling near $4,157 an ounce as investors continued unwinding safe-haven bets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Than 20% Off the Peak<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The metal has now dropped over 20% from the all-time high it reached earlier this year during the height of the Iran conflict, when it briefly touched an intraday peak above $5,626 and closed at a record near $5,355 in late January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Safe-Haven Trade Unwinds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As geopolitical fears eased somewhat toward the end of the week, investors pulled back from gold&#8217;s earlier &#8220;fear premium,&#8221; pushing prices lower even as tensions in the Middle East remained unresolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Year-to-Date Picture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the pullback, gold&#8217;s longer-term trend remains a story of sharp swings tied closely to headlines out of the Middle East, leaving the metal only modestly negative for the year so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold extended its retreat this week, falling for a fourth straight session and settling near $4,157 an ounce as investors continued unwinding safe-haven bets. More Than 20% Off the Peak&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}