The group’s hospitals continued to be a core driver of its performance, with net profit from these businesses jumping more than 31 per cent to Dh137 million
"I think we have the last bearish news, which is the tax reform, and that is negative for gold so we expect gold to stay pretty depressed," said Richard Xu, a fund manager at China's biggest gold exchange-traded fund, HuaAn Gold.
The U.S. tax bill, which would cut taxes for businesses and the rich while offering everyday Americans a mixed bag of changes, has helped drive the surge in equity markets this year.
Asian shares gained on Monday, pulled higher by Wall Street, which hit record highs on expectations US lawmakers will pass the long-awaited bill.
Expectations that tax cuts would spur economic growth and prompt faster interest rate rises in the United States have boosted the dollar and weighed on gold.
Spot gold faces a resistance at $1,262 per ounce and may hover below this level or retrace to a support at $1,239, Reuters technicals analyst Wang Tao said.
Hedge funds and money managers cut their net long positions in COMEX gold contracts in the week to December 12, while they switched to a net short stance in silver for the first time in five months, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data showed on Friday.
In other precious metals, silver and palladium were nearly unchanged at $16.04 per ounce and $1,022.95 per ounce, respectively.
Platinum was 0.3 per cent lower at $890.50 an ounce, after earlier touching its best since December 8 at $896.80.
The group’s hospitals continued to be a core driver of its performance, with net profit from these businesses jumping more than 31 per cent to Dh137 million
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