{"id":1713,"date":"2026-01-05T07:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:11:01","slug":"gold-climbs-as-u-s-captures-venezuelas-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/01\/05\/gold-climbs-as-u-s-captures-venezuelas-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Climbs as U.S. Captures Venezuela&#8217;s Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gold prices rose sharply in early Asian trading Monday, climbing about 1.8%, following the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. The geopolitical shock drove investors toward safe-haven assets, also lifting silver by nearly 3.5%. The precious metals are rebounding after recent dips, with gold having posted its strongest annual gain since 1979 last year amid interest rate cut expectations and central bank purchases.<\/p><p>Meanwhile, oil prices showed little immediate change as markets assessed the potential impact on global crude supplies. U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to tap Venezuela&#8217;s reserves but analysts note the nation&#8217;s oil infrastructure is in steep decline, contributing only about 1% of global output. Experts suggest the event is unlikely to swiftly affect energy costs for consumers and businesses.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold prices rose sharply in early Asian trading Monday, climbing about 1.8%, following the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. The geopolitical shock drove investors toward safe-haven assets, also lifting silver by nearly 3.5%. The precious metals are rebounding after recent dips, with gold having posted its strongest annual gain since 1979 last year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}