Gold settles higher, but rings up first weekly loss in a month

Gold futures ended higher Friday, but registered their first weekly loss in about a month in an up-and-down stretch for stocks marked by a multisession rally in the early part of the holiday-shortened week. April gold ended $4.50, or 0.4%, higher to settle at $1,230.80 an ounce, but logged a weekly decline of 0.7%.

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