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Gold rebounds

By our correspondents
October 06, 2016

Reuters

Bengaluru

Gold rose on Wednesday, bouncing back from hitting its lowest in more than three months in the previous session, as the U.S. dollar eased back from a two-month high and stocks fell.

Spot gold was up half a percent at $1,273.40 an ounce by 0349 GMT, after dropping more than 3 percent on Tuesday to its lowest since June 24. U.S. gold futures rose 0.5 percent to $1,275.90 an ounce, after also falling more than 3 percent on Tuesday. "Tuesday´s fall was really a long liquidation and was probably over done.

If the non-farm payroll data this week is too good, then we might try another low," said Yuichi Ikemizu, head of commodity trading at Standard Bank in Tokyo.  "Still, $1,250 would be a good support.  I don´t really expect gold to go much lower from here and we could see steady buy back toward $1,300 levels," Ikemizu said. The drop on Tuesday was bullion´s biggest one-day percentage drop.