Gold escalated during the Asian trading session, amid the investors taking into consideration the Federal Reserve's meeting minutes to come up with valid predictions for a probable rate hike in 2017.
Gold trades to $1,171.95
February's gold delivery, on the New York Mercantile Exchange of the Comex division, traded to $1,171.95 a troy ounce, rising 0.57%.
Silver futures, for delivery in March, reached $16.587 a troy ounce, adding 0.21%, and copper futures to $2.552 a pound, declining 0.23%. Copper futures traded to $2.549 a pound, jumping 2.4% or 6.0 cents.
Moreover, China's Caixin services PMI ticked higher than 53.3, rising to 53.4.
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