Gold prices flat as investors brace for large U.S. rate hike

​​​Higher interest rates increase the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion and boosts the dollar. The European Central Bank may need to raise interest rates to a level that restricts economic growth in order to cool demand and combat unacceptably high inflation, ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday.

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