Gold ticked up on Tuesday on concerns surrounding the U.S. banking crisis and debt ceiling negotiations, while traders also braced for clues on the path of interest rates from the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting.
Dutch specialty chemicals maker DSM's first-quarter profit and sales missed expectations on Tuesday, hit by weak volumes, persistently high inflation and low vitamin prices.
Turkey's trade deficit widened 43.9% year-on-year to $8.85 billion in April, the Trade Ministry said on Tuesday, while energy and gold imports, the main accelerator of the deficit, slowed down in the same period.
Gold prices edged lower on Monday as the dollar rose after better-than-expected U.S. manufacturing data, while markets await the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike decision this week.