Gold futures settled higher on Friday as the slow pace of U.S. job growth in August dulled the prospects for a Federal Reserve interest-rate increase at a meeting later this month. Prices for the yellow metal finished the week with a slight gain of less than 0.1%. December gold rose $9.60, or 0.7%, to settle at $1,326.70 an ounce on Comex.
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