U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told the Senate that the conflict with Iran has already cost the United States approximately USD 37.5 billion<\/strong>. He is also seeking an additional USD 87.6 billion in emergency funding<\/strong> to restore and strengthen the U.S. military\u2019s operational capabilities.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Donald Trump stated that he currently has \u201cno interest\u201d<\/strong> in negotiating with Iran until the country is prepared to engage in serious talks. The number of U.S. military personnel killed in the conflict has reportedly risen to 17<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The prolonged conflict continues to support demand for gold as a safe-haven asset.<\/p>\n Should tensions escalate further, oil prices could rise, intensifying inflationary pressures and potentially providing additional support for gold prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" U.S. Spending Surpasses $37.5 Billion U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told the Senate that the conflict with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forexeducations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forexeducations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forexeducations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forexeducations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forexeducations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.forexeducations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/www.forexeducations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forexeducations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forexeducations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forexeducations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forexeducations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\ud83d\udcca Impact on Gold Prices<\/h2>\n