Bullion tips for today : Gold ticked up for a 3rd session, buoyed by short covering following a dip in the dollar & soft U.S. manufacturing data. Spot gold edged up 0.1 per-cent to $1,070.60 an ounce by 0036 GMT, after gaining near 1 per-cent in the previous two sessions.

The weaker USD provided some kind of support for the greenback-denominated gold and an opportunity for investors to cover short positions. Hedge funds & money managers are holding a record net short position in COMEX gold contracts, reports on Monday concluded.Gold, a non-enthusiasm bearing resource loses sheen in a rising financing cost situation. In addition, the bullion was bolstered by theory that the Fed may take a steady way to deal with expanding loan costs regardless of the possibility that it chooses to embrace the introductory lift-off this month, as the quickest pace of US assembling withdrawal since 2009 in November raised questions over the US monetary recuperation.

Despite the latest gains, the overview for gold remains bearish due to a looming U.S. rate increment. The Federal Reserve is widely estimated to lift U.S. rates current month for the 1st time in nearly a decade.

Bullion fell to a near-6-year low previous month & posted its highest monthly drop in 2-1/2 years in November as investors believed higher rates could weaken the requirement for non-interest-paying bullion.

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