Gold near three-month low

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Gold was mired near a three-month low on Tuesday on expectations the U.S. Federal Reserve was well on track to raise interest rates before the end of the year.
A forecast-beating U.S. October employment report on Friday pushed up bets that the Fed will increase interest rates in December for the first time in nearly a decade, weighing on the price of non-interest bearing gold.
"Gold will stay below $1,100 as the interest rate hike becomes more and more imminent," said Mark To, head of research at Hong Kong's Wing Fung Financial Group.
Spot gold was little changed at $1,092.35 an ounce by 0646 GMT. Bullion ended an eight-day losing run on Monday, but not enough to pull it far away from Friday's low of $1,084.90, its weakest since Aug. 7.
Following bullion's recent steep drop, MKS Group trader James Gardiner said "a bounce, or at least a consolidation, is well overdue". He pegged the next support level for gold at around $1,074 and then at $1,050.