PRECIOUS-Gold set for biggest daily gain since 2008 after two-session rout

BY Reuters | ECONOMIC | 02/03/26 03:27 AM EST

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Gold's bull run seen intact despite steep pullback- analysts

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Gold jumps over 5%

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Gold, silver fell to one-month lows on Monday

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No US employment report on Friday due to partial government shutdown

(Updates prices for late Asia session trade)

By Ishaan Arora

Feb 3 (Reuters) - Gold surged over 5% on Tuesday, on track for its ?biggest daily gain since November 2008, while silver also jumped as precious metals staged a comeback after their steepest ?two-day drop in decades. Analysts see the bull run continuing and expect the metals ?to notch fresh record highs later this year.

Spot gold climbed ?5.8% to $4,935.56 an ounce ?by 0818 GMT. On Monday, it hit a low of $4,403.24, two sessions after peaking at $5,594.82.

U.S. gold futures for April ?delivery rose 6.6% to $4,958.50 per ounce.

"It's a ?reasonable call that this is somewhere around fair value potentially, if you consider that we saw a market behaving fairly irrationally for a ?few weeks there," said Kyle Rodda, a senior ?market analyst ?at Capital.com.

"The current prices take gold and silver back to where they were, early in the second half of January."

Gold's spectacular rally saw it ?smash multiple peaks and log a nearly 13% gain in January, its biggest monthly gain since November 2009, while silver touched an all-time high of $121.64 last Thursday.

Silver gained 10% to $87.40 an ounce on Tuesday, after suffering its biggest one-day loss on record on Friday with a 27% slump. It fell by another 6% on Monday.

The metals ?had ?slumped after U.S. President Donald Trump nominated Kevin Warsh to be the next U.S. Federal Reserve chair.

"The markets endorsed Warsh's nomination by U.S. President Donald ?Trump as someone relatively credible, and so we saw the dollar move on that basis, and again, that was kind of like the pin that popped the big precious metals," Rodda said.

CME Group (CME) also raised margin requirements on precious metal futures, fuelling last week's sharp.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Monday the closely-watched employment report for January would not be released this ?Friday because of a partial shutdown of the federal government.

In other metals, spot platinum climbed 5.7% to $2,242.55 per ounce after hitting a record high of $2,918.80 on January 26, while palladium was up 5.3% at $1,811.39. (Reporting ?by Ishaan Arora and Swati Verma in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu and Mrigank Dhaniwala)

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