Dubai gold prices rise. Should you wait before investing?

Dubai - Spot gold was up 0.1 per cent at $1,242.01 an ounce.

Gold prices nudged higher in early trade on Monday amid a softer US dollar and slightly weaker Asian shares, after sliding to their lowest in seven months in the previous session.              
Spot goldwas up 0.1 per cent at $1,242.01 an ounce at 0103 GMT, after marking the lowest since Dec. 12 at $1,236.58 on Friday.    
Meanwhile, 24k gold is priced at Dh150.25 and 22k can be bought at Dh141.25 in Dubai.
 Asian shares were lower on Monday, brushing off a firmer Wall Street lead as investor caution dominated ahead of the release of key Chinese economic data.              
China is expected to report a modest slowdown in second-quarter economic growth, as the government's efforts to tackle debt risks crimp activity and a trade war with the United States threatens exports.                
On the eve of his meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump rattled allies once more by labelling the European Union a "foe" with regard to trade.                
The European Union will open an annual meeting with China on Monday, and will be looking to fend off overtures for an anti-US alliance as China seeks a European counterbalance to US tariffs.   President Trump said on Friday the United States and Britain could secure a "great" post-Brexit trade deal, lavishing praise on Prime Minister Theresa May and contradicting his own withering assessment of her strategy publicised hours earlier.
The Federal Reserve on Friday pointed to "solid" US economic growth during the first half of the year in its semi-annual report to Congress, where it also reiterated that it expected to continue to raise interest rates gradually. The Bank of Japan this month might concede that inflation could fall short of its 2 per cent target for as long as three more years, sources say, in what would be the strongest sign yet of acceptance that its goal cannot be reached quickly.   
Hedge funds and money managers cut their net long position in COMEX gold contracts to a 2-1/2-year low in the week to July 10, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data showed on Friday.            
 

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