BENGALURU (Reuters) - Gold prices steadied in Asian trade on Tuesday, a day after falling to the lowest level in more than two weeks, as a climb in the dollar and 10-year U.S. Treasury yields dampened the appeal of bullion, which pays no interest.
FUNDAMENTALS
* After falling for three sessions, spot gold > edged up 0.1 percent to $1,325.16 per ounce at 0041 GMT, not far from a low of $1,321.81 an ounce touched on Monday, its weakest level since April 6.
* U.S. gold futures
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* The dollar index <.DXY>, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, was steady near the more than three-month high of 90.985 hit in the previous session. [USD/]
* U.S. bond prices fell on Monday, with the 10-year yield hitting its highest in over four years. [US/]
* Palladium > plunged 5 percent on Monday after the United States gave American customers of Russia's biggest aluminium producer Rusal <0486.HK> more time to comply with sanctions.
* Rusal owns a 28 percent stake in Norilsk Nickel
* South Korea on Monday halted the propaganda broadcasts it blares across the border with North Korea, aiming to set a positive tone ahead of the first summit in a decade between their leaders as the U.S. president cautioned the nuclear crisis was far from resolved.
* Russia raised gold holdings by 10.3 tonnes to 1,890.9 tonnes in March, International Monetary Fund data showed on Monday.
* Barrick Gold Corp
* Australia's biggest gold miner Newcrest Mining
(Reporting by Swati Verma in Bengaluru; editing by Richard Pullin)
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