Gold Slides As Markets Brush Off Historic April Jobs Report

Gold futures are sliding to end the trading week as financial markets shrugged off the historic April jobs report. The yellow metal’s drop was capped by a weaker US dollar, helping prices squeak out a tepid weekly gain. With bullish optimism prevalent throughout the equities arena, will gold continually trade around $1,700, or will it test $1,800 this month?

June gold futures tumbled $9.70, or 0.56%, to $1,716.10 per ounce at 16:47 GMT...

Gold Slides As Markets Brush Off Historic April Jobs Report

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