Gold futures are trading lower as investors digest some of the latest developments happening in the news. The biggest development to kick off the trading week is the breaking story that President Donald Trump and House Democrats have reached a tentative deal on the USMCA trade agreement. Conflicting trade reports also impacted the yellow metal’s direction on Monday.
January gold futures rose $0.30, or 0.02%, to $1,465.40 per ounce at 18:20 GMT on Monday on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Silver, the sister commodity to gold, is trading higher to start the trading week. February silver futures tacked on $0.045, or 0.28%, to $16.55 an ounce. The white metal suffered a 2% weekly loss last week, lowering its gains to 7% on the year.
Gold has been seeing between positive and negative territory throughout the Monday trading session, unable to generate clear momentum. The yellow metal might still be reeling from last week’s impressive November jobs report that found 266,000 new jobs were created and the unemployment rate tumbled to 3.5%.
It was reported that President Trump and the House Democrats reached a tentative deal on the newest version of the 25-
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Meanwhile, a deputy commerce minister said that China really wants to reach a trade agreement with the US ahead of this weekend’s deadline of tariffs. But global financial markets are not viewing
In other metal markets, January copper futures tacked on $0.035, or 1.23%, to $2.76 a pound. January platinum futures slipped $1.90, or 0.21%, to $897.00 per ounce. February palladium futures surged $9.20, or 0.5%, to $1,855.30 an ounce.
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