Gold steady as investors await details of US-Iran peace deal

Gold prices were largely steady on Tuesday after rising to a more than one-week high in the previous session, as investors awaited further details on the U.S.-Iran peace deal.

FUNDAMENTALS
* Spot gold was up 0.1% at $4,311.36 per ounce, as of 0049 GMT, after rising over 2% on Monday to hit its highest level since June ‌5.


* U.S. ⁠gold futures ⁠for August delivery were down 0.4% at $4,332.60.

* U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday a preliminary agreement to end the war in the Gulf has been signed by the U.S. and Iran, though details have yet to be made public and both countries said a permanent truce is yet to be negotiated.

* The agreement would extend a tenuous ceasefire announced in ⁠April by another ‌60 days and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has effectively blocked since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran ⁠in February.

* Major stock indexes and bond prices rallied, while oil futures settled at a three-month low on Monday. [MKTS/GLOB]

* Citi raised its 0-3 month gold price forecast by $500 to $4,500 per ounce, citing that risk sentiment is likely to turn higher more broadly.

* Investors now await the Federal Reserve policy decision and remarks, the first under Chair Kevin Warsh, on Wednesday, with rates widely expected to remain unchanged.

* ‌India's silver imports plunged 87% in May from a year earlier to their lowest level in more than three years, government data showed on Monday, after ⁠the world's largest consumer of the metal tightened curbs on imports in nearly all forms.

* Singapore will establish an over-the-counter gold clearing system and introduce central bank gold-vaulting services, the deputy prime minister said on Monday, as the city-state looks to establish itself as a gold trading hub.

* Spot silver fell 0.4% to $69.74 per ounce, platinum lost 0.4% to $1,761, and palladium was down 1.3% to $1,331.59.

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