The Gold price surpassed the $3,400 per troy ounce mark yesterday and climbed further to a five-week high, Commerzbank's commodity analyst Carsten Fritsch notes.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) ground to a halt on Thursday, stuck near the 45,500 region as investors await the latest batch of United States (US) Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCE) inflation data, due on Friday.
Ripple (XRP) shows signs of recovery, holding support at $3.00 on Thursday. Interest in the cross-border money remittance token has steadied over the past few days, underpinned by the futures weighted funding rate rising to 0.0090% from 0.0018% recorded on Tuesday.