{"id":22519,"date":"2026-02-12T15:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=22519"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:05:48","slug":"gold-edges-lower-on-firmer-dollar-after-strong-us-jobs-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/02\/12\/gold-edges-lower-on-firmer-dollar-after-strong-us-jobs-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Edges Lower On Firmer Dollar After Strong US Jobs Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">Gold prices dipped on Thursday, as the US dollar firmed after stronger-than-expected January jobs data dented expectation for near-term interest rate cuts, while investors awaited inflation data \u200bdue on Friday for more monetary policy cues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Spot gold edged 0.3 percent lower to $5,065.98 per ounce by 0318 GMT. It closed Wednesday with a more than 1 percent gain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">US gold futures for April delivery lost 0.2 percent to $5,087.30 per ounce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The US dollar index rose following the surprisingly strong employment \u2060report that suggested underlying US economic health. \u200bA stronger dollar makes greenback-priced metals \u2060more expensive for other currency holders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Spot silver fell 0.3 percent to $83.81 \u200bper ounce, after a 4 percent climb on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Spot platinum \u2060shed 0.3 percent to $2,126.52 per ounce, while palladium rose 1.4 percent to $1,722.67.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold prices dipped on Thursday, as the US dollar firmed after stronger-than-expected January jobs data dented expectation for near-term interest rate cuts, while investors awaited inflation data \u200bdue on Friday for more monetary policy cues. Spot gold edged 0.3 percent lower to $5,065.98 per ounce by 0318 GMT. It closed Wednesday with a more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22523,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22519\/revisions\/22523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}