Gold prices climbed Tuesday to recoup more than a third of what they lost a day earlier. Prices found some support on the back of weakness in the U.S. dollar, as investors awaited Wednesday’s release of the Federal Open Market Committee minutes from the November meeting for clues on the Federal Reserve’s stance on the path for interest-rate hikes. December gold climbed $6.40, or 0.5%, to settle at $1,281.70 an ounce after losing 1.6% on Monday.
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