WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Gold futures rose Wednesday, extending recent gains by posting a fifth straigh advance.
February gold rose $3.90, or 0.3%, at $1,291.40 an ounce.
The Conference Board released a report on Wednesday showing a much bigger than expected pullback in confidence in the month of December.
The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index slumped to 122.1 in December from a downwardly revised 128.6 in November.
Economists had expected the consumer confidence index to edge down to 128.0 from the 129.5 originally reported for the previous month.
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