{"id":1337173,"date":"2025-12-26T11:42:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/gold-and-platinum-prices-hit-historic-highs\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:42:47","slug":"gold-and-platinum-prices-hit-historic-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/gold-and-platinum-prices-hit-historic-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold and platinum prices hit historic highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gold, silver and platinum prices hit record highs on Friday, December 26. The rise in precious metals comes amid year-end speculation, reduced liquidity in the markets, expectations of further rate cuts in the US and heightened geopolitical tensions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Spot gold was trading at $4,504.79 an ounce as of 6:23 a.m. Kyiv time, after hitting a record high of $4,530.60, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/india\/silver-tops-75-gold-platinum-surge-records-2025-12-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to Reuters. Gold futures for February delivery rose 0.7% to $4,535.20, or $145.32 per gram.<\/p>\n<p> Silver rose 3.6% to $74.56 an ounce after hitting a record high of $75.14, equivalent to $2.40 per gram. OANDA senior analyst Kelvin Wong predicts that gold could hit $5,000 an ounce and silver could hit $90 in the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n<p> This year, gold has posted its biggest annual gain since 1979, while silver has risen 158%, outpacing gold by almost 72%, driven by structural deficits, its inclusion on the US list of critical minerals, and robust industrial demand.<\/p>\n<p> Platinum rose 7.8% to $2,393.40 an ounce after hitting a record high of $2,429.98, while palladium rose 5.2% to $1,771.14 after hitting a three-year high in the previous session. This equates to $77.21 per gram for platinum and $57.13 per gram for palladium. The rise in prices for these metals is driven by supply shortages, customs uncertainty and a shift from gold to platinum and palladium. Platinum is up about 165% year-to-date, while palladium is up more than 90%.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zoloto-i-sriblo-vstanovyly-novi-tsinovi-rekordy-u-chomu-prychyna\/\">gold and silver prices have surged and hit record highs amid geopolitical tensions<\/a> and expectations of lower interest rates in the US. Precious metals are posting their best annual performance in decades.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, on December 23, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tsiny-na-dorohotsinni-metaly-zletily-zoloto-ta-sriblo-b-iut-rekordy\/\">gold prices set a historic record, exceeding $4,500 per ounce<\/a> . At the same time, silver also renewed its high.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold, silver and platinum prices hit record highs on Friday, December 26. The rise in precious metals comes amid year-end speculation, reduced liquidity in the markets, expectations of further rate cuts in the US and heightened geopolitical tensions. Spot gold was trading at $4,504.79 an ounce as of 6:23 a.m. Kyiv time, after hitting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1337167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76892,76870,76871],"class_list":["post-1337173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-economy","category-world","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1337167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}