{"id":69168,"date":"2026-01-27T10:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/27\/gold-scales-new-high-on-safe-haven-demand\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:05:32","slug":"gold-scales-new-high-on-safe-haven-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/27\/gold-scales-new-high-on-safe-haven-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Scales New High On Safe-haven Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Gold prices surged to new record highs on Tuesday as rising geopolitical and economic uncertainties underpinned safe-haven demand for the precious metal.<\/p>\n<p>Spot gold traded 1.6 percent higher at $5,083.76 an ounce, after hitting a high of $5,101.10 earlier. U.S. gold futures were up 0.1 percent at $5,126.21.<\/p>\n<p>Escalating trade tensions, U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he would raise tariffs on South Korean imports to 25 percent because of a delay in the South Korean legislature approving a trade deal with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Trump threatened 100 percent tariffs on Canadian goods over Canada-China deal.<\/p>\n<p>On the geopolitical front, Iran&#8217;s foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei has issued a clear warning that the Islamic Republic is fully prepared to deliver a &#8220;sweeping, regret-inducing response&#8221; to any act of aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Investors also braced for a possible U.S. government shutdown over the funding of DHS &amp; ICE amid Minnesota unrest. <\/p>\n<p>The dollar struggled to rebound as traders seemed reluctant to make any significant moves ahead of the Federal Reserve&#8217;s monetary policy announcement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>While the Fed is widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged, traders will pay close attention to the accompanying statement for clues about the outlook for rates. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Gold Scales New High On Safe-haven Demand<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-27 10:05:32<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold prices surged to new record highs on Tuesday as rising geopolitical and economic uncertainties underpinned safe-haven demand for the precious metal. Spot gold traded 1.6 percent higher at $5,083.76&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1585504256855-6718f7a693ae?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=934&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/69169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}