{"id":662355,"date":"2025-12-30T11:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662355\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:30:14","slug":"uk-stocks-tick-up-and-europe-mixed-as-global-markets-head-for-best-year-since-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662355\/","title":{"rendered":"UK stocks tick up and Europe mixed as global markets head for best year since 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Pedro Goncalves writes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Gold prices were mixed on Tuesday morning but rebounded from a sharp sell-off in the previous session, as thin year-end trading amplified price swings and investors looked ahead to supportive fundamentals that could drive precious metals to fresh highs in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Gold futures rose 0.8% to $4,377.40 an ounce, while spot prices retreated 2.8% to $4,358.64 at the time of writing. Bullion touched a record $4,549.71 on Friday before sliding to its lowest level since December 17 on Monday, marking its steepest daily percentage decline since October 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">&#8220;The fact that we&#8217;ve had such a significant selloff from Monday open &#8230; it just goes to show the significant volatility probably compounded by thinner trading conditions because of the holiday season,&#8221; Kyle Rodda, senior analyst at Capital.com, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Gold has posted a strong performance in 2025, rising 66%, supported by expectations of interest rate cuts, bets on further US policy easing, ongoing geopolitical tensions, sustained central bank buying and growing holdings in exchange-traded funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">&#8220;I&#8217;m expecting the longer-term rally to continue for both gold and silver, with price targets in the next six months at $5,010\/oz for gold and $90.90 for silver,&#8221; said Kelvin Wong, senior market analyst at OANDA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pedro Goncalves writes: Gold prices were mixed on Tuesday morning but rebounded from a sharp sell-off in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[32,2000,299,5187,202402,61082,1880,53676,976],"class_list":{"0":"post-662355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-indices","13":"tag-ftse","14":"tag-ftse-100","15":"tag-ftse-250","16":"tag-nasdaq"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115808293630470690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}