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Gold ticked down more than half a per cent, having risen sharply in the previous session, as investors digested US President Barack Obama's $US447 billion jobs plan to spur economic growth and battle unemployment. Although the lingering debt crisis in Full story

- Democratic lawmakers are openly questioning whether they can trust President Barack Obama to cut future deals with Republicans, while disappointment among party activists is raising doubts about their investment in his 2012 re-election campaign. Full story

- President Barack Obama summoned top Democratic and Republican lawmakers to the White House Wednesday to resume negotiations on averting a potentially crippling government default, as attention focused on a new bipartisan budget plan emerging in the Senate. But the congressional leaders were meeting separately with Obama, not with each other. Full story

EST Gold GC-FT fell to a near three-month low on Thursday, hit by a stronger U.S. dollar and uncertainty over how U.S. President Barack Obama's proposal to limit risk taking by banks could affect gold trading. Full story

EST Gold GC-FT firmed in Europe on Thursday as the U.S. Full story

NEW YORK/LONDON - Gold prices fell on Friday, touching a one-month low during the session, as President Barack Obama's proposal to limit risk-taking by banks pressured commodities across the board. The dollar's decline helped pick gold prices up off the Full story

NEW YORK Gold firmed in Europe on Friday as the dollar fell broadly, retreating from sixmonth highs versus the euro, after us President Barack Obama proposed tough new rules to limit financial risk-taking by banks. Gold and other commodities initially Full story

Several commodities have turned weak in recent times including the crude oil rubber chana pepper and gold. The tightening of monetary policy in China rupee exchange rate volatility US President Barack Obama's restrictions on risk taking by financial Full story