{"id":41021,"date":"2013-08-15T09:18:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T13:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=41021"},"modified":"2013-08-15T09:18:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T13:18:40","slug":"4-facts-you-should-know-about-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/08\/15\/4-facts-you-should-know-about-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Facts You Should Know About Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article by <a href=\"http:\/\/investazor.com\/\" target=\"blank\"><u>Investazor.com<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1) The factor that influences the most the long-term performance of gold is no longer the U.S.\u2019 sentiment and behavior. Currently, the emerging markets are strongly influencing the precious metal as they covers almost 70% of the annual demand, while U.S. accounts for almost 10%. Covering the period April-June 2013, the demand for gold increased with 54% in China and 51% in India.<\/p>\n<p>2) Central Banks remain committed to buying gold. Even if the demand in the second quarter (71 tones) didn\u2019t exceed previous performances, Central Banks were net purchasers\u00a0of gold for the tenth consecutive quarter.<\/p>\n<p>3) Gold remains an element which has the quality of balancing the investors\u2019 portfolios. The U.S.\u2019s interest rate policy might not weight so much for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>4) As recycling of gold represents 40% of total supply over the last five years, the first 6 months of 2013 showed a considerably drop in supply due to this cause. The decreasing in offer was also caused by the slowdown in the mining activity.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/investazor.com\/2013\/08\/15\/4-facts-you-should-know-about-gold\/\">4 Facts You Should Know About Gold<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/investazor.com\">investazor.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Investazor?a=jb7mypGheOE:y6w4cd0kSNU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Investazor?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Investazor\/~4\/jb7mypGheOE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article by Investazor.com 1) The factor that influences the most the long-term performance of gold is no longer the U.S.\u2019 sentiment and behavior. Currently, the emerging markets are strongly influencing the precious metal as they covers almost 70% of the annual demand, while U.S. accounts for almost 10%. Covering the period April-June 2013, the demand &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/08\/15\/4-facts-you-should-know-about-gold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;4 Facts You Should Know About Gold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}