– Gold prices on Thursday held steady near a more than one-week high hit in the previous session, with hopes for a new round of U.S.-China trade talks weighing on the dollar.
Gold prices have fallen nearly 12 percent since a peak in April amid intensifying global trade tensions and under pressure from rising U.S. interest rates.
Higher rates make non-yielding bullion less attractive, and tend to boost the dollar, in which gold is priced.
“Gold is trading entirely on the mercy of the U.S. dollar … to judge gold by any other metric in this environment provides an indecisive, inconclusive and highly inconsequential signal,” said Stephen Innes, Asia-Pacific trading head for OANDA.
