Gold Steady Near 2-Week Low as Dollar Strengthens

Gold prices held steady near two-week lows early on Monday, weighed down by the rebound in the U.S. dollar following better-than-expected U.S. jobs data from last week.

Spot gold was flat at $1,257.31 an ounce. On Friday, it reached its lowest in over a week and recorded its first weekly drop in four.

U.S. gold futures for December delivery were down 0.1 percent to $1,263.00 an ounce.

SPDR Gold Trust, the world's biggest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, said its holdings dropped 0.60 percent to 787.14 tonnes on Friday from 791.88 tonnes the previous day. The fund saw its holdings decline by over seven percent in July, as investors dumped bullion for other assets and propelled it to its largest monthly drop since April 2013.

Hedge funds and money managers raised their net long position in COMEX gold for the third consecutive time to the highest in seven weeks in the week to Aug. 1, and raised it to a record peak in copper, according to data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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