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PRECIOUS-Gold prices tread water ahead of G7, U.S. Fed meetings
June 8 (Reuters) – Gold prices held steady on Friday as investors remained cautious ahead of a G7 meeting starting later in the day and other key events next week such as a United States Federal Reserve policy meeting and a U.S.-North Korea summit.
Spot gold XAU= was steady at $1,296.36 per ounce by 0415 GMT. It hit a one-week high of $1,303.08 an ounce in the previous session and has risen about 0.3 percent for the week so far.
U.S. gold futures GCcv1 for August delivery fell 0.2 percent to $1,300.40 per ounce.
“Gold is most likely going to be range bound. The markets are looking very closely on what could actually come out from the G7 meeting,” said OCBC analyst Barnabas Gan.
Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations headed for a summit in Canada on Thursday more divided than at any time in the group’s 42-year history, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies risk causing a global trade war and deep diplomatic schisms. Donald Trump is set to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 in Singapore, and the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) starts its two-day meeting on interest rates on the same day.
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