PRECIOUS-Gold slips to over 3-month low as equities rise on 'risk-on' sentiment

(Updates prices)
* Palladium falls over 3% to 1-month low
* Silver climbs after falling to mid-August lows
* Platinum touches its lowest since Oct. 4
* GRAPHIC-2019 asset returns: http://tmsnrt.rs/2jvdmXl

By K. Sathya Narayanan
Nov 11 (Reuters) - Gold fell on Monday to its lowest in more
than three months, dragged below technical support as upbeat
risk sentiment kept U.S. stock indexes close to record levels,
while investors awaited news on the U.S.-China trade.
Spot gold XAU= fell 0.1% to $1,456.98 per ounce as of 1:46
p.m. EST (1846 GMT), having touched its lowest since Aug. 5
earlier. U.S. gold futures GCcv1 settled down 0.4% at
1,457.10.
"Overall, the outlook for (wider markets) seems more
positive," said Tai Wong, head of base and precious metals
derivatives trading at BMO, adding the immediate trigger for
gold's decline was technical, since it failed to hold above
$1,460.
"Before the trade-driven August rally, we were in a
$1,380-$1,440 range so we could trade down somewhere into that
level."
U.S. stocks bounced off lows on Monday and hovered near
record levels hit the previous week. .N
But investors remained cautious about U.S.-China trade
negotiations after U.S. President Donald Trump said Beijing
wanted a deal more than he did. Trump also said that there had been incorrect reporting
about Washington's willingness to lift tariffs.
Wall Street's bounce "took everything out of gold that it had
going today," said Bob Haberkorn, senior market strategist at
RJO Futures.
Gold slumped 3.6% last week for its biggest weekly decline
in three years on upbeat equities and optimism surrounding the
U.S.-China trade deal.
"Gold is waiting for the next big fundamental development,"
Kitco Metals senior analyst Jim Wyckoff said. He said a stock
market decline could boost bullion, as could a worsening of
unrest in Hong Kong, where protesters threw petrol bombs at
police after a weekend of clashes across the Chinese-ruled
territory. Among other precious metals, palladium XPD= dropped 3.2%
to $1,686.93 per ounce, having touched lowest since Oct. 10
earlier.
"It's more of a short term, though possibly sharp,
correction like we had in the beginning of August before it
embarked on a $400-30% rally. The market has been and remains
quite long so, the weakest hands will always liquidate on price
retreats," BMO's Wong said.
Platinum XPT= slipped 1%, to $877.43 per ounce, after
touching its lowest since Oct. 4, while silver XAG= rose 0.3%
to $16.84 after slipping to its lowest since mid-August earlier
in the day.