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Gold fell nearly 2 percent to a four-week low early on Tuesday, sliding for a fifth straight session as prices came under pressure from a rising dollar and speculation that the US Federal Reserve may lift interest rates this year. The Fed last week put a December rate rise into play, dampening earlier talk that a string of downbeat US data and global growth concerns could push back to next year the first rate increase in nearly a decade.
Spot gold was down 1.7 percent at $1,114.70 an ounce at 1:54 pm EST (1854 GMT), its biggest drop in 3-1/2 months, having earlier touched its lowest since October 2 at $1,114.10. US gold futures for December delivery settled down 1.9 percent at $1,114.10 an ounce. Traders will be eyeing this week's US economic data closely, particularly the bellwether non-farm payrolls report on Friday, for clues on whether or not the Fed will move before the end of the year.
"We are back to watching US data as the next six weeks' output most likely will determine the output of the December FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting," said Saxo Bank head of commodities research Ole Hansen. "With yields being universally low, investors are continuing to find better value in stocks rather than gold or silver, which pay no interest or dividends and cost money to store," said Fawad Razaqzada, technical analyst for Forex.com.
Holdings in the world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, the SPDR Gold Trust, fell to a three-week low by nearly 3 tonnes to 689.28 tonnes on Monday. "Physically backed gold products (have) hardly recorded inflows since summer, signalling investor reluctance to return to the market," Julius Baer said in a note. Silver was down 1.2 percent at $15.21 an ounce, platinum was down 1.5 percent at $957.50 and palladium was down 1 percent at $640.75.

Copyright Reuters, 2015

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