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Gold fell for a third day on Friday after British elections failed to deliver a clear majority for Prime Minister Theresa May, knocking the pound sharply lower and helping lift the dollar index to its highest since late May.
The snap poll wiped out May’s parliamentary majority, throwing the country into turmoil ahead of complex talks on Britain’s exit from the EU due to begin in 10 days’ time.
Spot gold was down 0.3 percent at $1,274.41 an ounce at 0930 GMT, while US gold futures for August delivery were $2.80 an ounce lower at $1,276.70.
Sterling-denominated gold rose to a near two-month high of £1,007.98 an ounce as the British currency fell as much as 2.5 percent. Along with a drop in the euro, that helped lift the dollar half a percent versus a currency basket.
“A lot of the financial markets have not moved as much as you might have thought,” Oxford Economics analyst Daniel Smith said.
“The dollar is a little bit stronger, and that is going to weigh on gold,” he said. “It is not just about risk appetite, it is about what people are thinking on the dollar.” The precious metal fell on Thursday following positive US economic data, and after former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) chief James Comey’s Congressional testimony was judged to contain no major surprises. Comey accused President Donald Trump of firing him to try to undermine the FBI’s investigation of possible collusion by his campaign team with Russia’s alleged efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election. Attention is now turning to the Federal Reserve policy meeting next week, at which the US central bank is expected to raise interest rates again. Gold is highly sensitive to rising US rates, which increase the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion while boosting the dollar.
“The market still expects an interest rate rise at the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on June 14 but their tone may soften,” ScotiaMocatta said in a monthly precious metals note.
“The downturn in the dollar combined with low US Treasury yields suggests expectations for further interest rate rises may be out of sync.”
Among other precious metals, palladium was up 1.5 percent at $866 an ounce, having earlier touched its highest in nearly three years at $867.50. Silver was down 0.2 percent to $17.34 per ounce, while platinum was 0.3 percent higher at $934.50.

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