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PRECIOUS-Gold hits 5-month low on strong dollar, Treasury yields

Published 14/11/2016, 10:49 pm
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* Silver also hits over 5-month low

* U.S. bond yields hit highest level since January

* SPDR Gold holdings down 0.8 percent on Friday (Updates throughout, adds LONDON dateline)

By Clara Denina

LONDON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Gold edged lower on Monday, hovering just above an earlier five-month low, as the dollar and Treasury yields strengthened on expectations that President-elect Donald Trump will boost U.S. spending.

"Gold is suffering from an irrational dollar rally on expectations Trump's fiscal policies will boost spending and therefore inflation, which could lead to higher U.S. interest rates," said ActivTrades chief analyst Carlo Alberto de Casa.

"However, uncertainty about the U.S. economic outlook and also about international risk events such as the Austrian presidential election and the Italian constitutional referendum next month could have an impact on wider markets and impact gold's trading in the medium term."

Spot gold XAU= was down 0.1 percent at $1,224.74 an ounce by 1136 GMT. The metal fell 1 percent to $1,212.26 an ounce earlier in the session, its lowest since June 3.

U.S. gold futures GCcv1 were unchanged at $1,224.50 an ounce.

The dollar .DXY rose to an eleven-month high against a basket of major peers, while yields on the U.S. 10-year Treasury US10YT=RR notes climbed to their highest since January at 2.2 percent. FRX/

A broad sell-off in global commodities and surging bond yields had seen the metal dipping nearly 3 percent in the previous session.

"People seem to have unwound their Trump-risk and are now talking more about 'Trumpflation'," said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at OANDA.

"The rate hike in December is an absolute done deal now."

The market is now betting on the Federal Reserve raising interest rates more quickly.

Higher U.S. interest rates could lift the opportunity cost of holding non-interest-bearing gold.

Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer said on Friday that U.S. economic growth prospects appeared strong enough for the Fed to proceed with a gradual increase in interest rates. are still negative on gold short-term in light of a stronger dollar, rising rates and rising equities," said INTL FCStone analyst Edward Meir. .N

SPDR Gold Trust GLD , the world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, said its holdings fell 0.76 percent to 934.56 tonnes on Friday. XAG= fell 0.9 percent to $17.17 an ounce, after touching its worst since June 9 at $17.00 in earlier trade.

Platinum XPT= was down 0.5 percent at $935.50, while palladium XPD= was down 0.2 percent at $668.72 an ounce.

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