Gold gains for a third day on hopes of dovish U.S. Fed

Spot gold was up 0.2% to $1,717.97 per ounce at 0928 GMT, having jumped more than 1% in the last session. U.S. gold futures gained 0.2% to $1,725.30.

“While you can be optimistic about the fact that the U.S. economy did add some jobs, that doesn’t necessarily mean the crisis is over,” said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK.

The Fed was likely to remain fairly easy for quite sometime and the economic outlook was likely to remain cloudy, Hewson said, adding that a weaker dollar was helping prices.

The dollar fell to a near three-month low against key rivals ahead of the outcome of Fed’s monetary policy meeting at 1800 GMT.

The U.S. central bankers will be publishing their first economic projections since the pandemic set off a recession in February.

“Gold traders would be looking to clues from the Fed as to the reality of a V-shaped economic recovery or whether stock market investors have gone ahead of themselves in assuming a V-shaped recovery,” Phillip Futures said in a note.

Easy monetary policy tends to benefit non-yielding gold and weighs on dollar and Treasury yields. Gold is also seen as a safe-haven during economic uncertainties.

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