PRECIOUS-Gold rises as investors await US Fed minutes

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Gold rebounds from one-week low

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January FOMC minutes due at 1900 GMT

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December PCE data due on Friday

(Rewrites for EMEA morning session)

By Pablo Sinha

Feb 18 (Reuters) - Gold prices rose more than 1% from ?a one-week low the previous session as investors ?awaited the minutes of January's U.S. Federal Reserve meeting due later on Wednesday.

Spot gold rose 0.8% ?to $4,915.90 per ounce by 0914 GMT, after gaining more than 1% earlier. ?U.S. gold futures for April delivery gained 0.6% to $4,936.30.

Prices ?falling below $4,900 "has created ?some opportunistic buying in the market," said Bernard Dahdah, an analyst at Natixis, adding that investors ?are positioning themselves ahead of the release ?of January's Fed minutes.

Bullion prices dropped to $4,841.74 per ounce on Tuesday, pressured by a stronger U.S. dollar and ?as easing tensions between the United States ?and ?Iran dampened safe-haven demand, while many Asian markets remain closed for the Lunar New Year.

Investors are also awaiting U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures ?report for December, due on Friday, to determine the Fed's monetary ?policy this year.

Markets currently expect the first interest rate cut in June, per CME's FedWatch Tool.

Non-yielding bullion tends to do well in low-interest-rate environments.

Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee on Tuesday signalled "several more" rate cuts ?this year ?if inflation resumes a decline to the 2% target, ?while Fed Governor Michael Barr said that another rate cut could come ?somewhere well down the road.

Iran and the U.S. reached an understanding on Tuesday on "guiding principles" for nuclear talks, but that does not mean a deal is imminent, the Iranian Foreign Minister said.

"Unless there are geopolitical reasons, we don't expect to see the same rally that we saw last year. So ?we see prices averaging around $4,850 this year," Dahdah said.

Spot silver rose 3.3% to $75.98 per ounce after dropping more than 5% on Tuesday.

Spot platinum gained ?1.8% to $2,043.38 per ounce, while palladium ?added 2.1% to $1,718.03. (Reporting by Pablo Sinha in ?Bengaluru; Editing by Alexander Smith)