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"Gold inched up on Tuesday,tracking a higher euro after Greece's international lendersreached a deal on a new debt target, key to unlocking the nextinstalment of emergency aid for Athens.        FUNDAMENTALS    * Spot gold edged up $1.65 to $1,750.14 an ounce by0025 GMT. U.S. gold was little changed at $1,750.60.    * Euro zone finance ministers and the International MonetaryFund clinched agreement on a new debt target for Greece onMonday in a significant step towards releasing another trancheof loans to the near-bankrupt economy, officials said.     * CME Group declared a force majeure at one of its New Yorkprecious metals depositories on Monday, run by major coin dealerManfra, Tordella and Brooks (MTB), due to operationallimitations posed by Hurricane Sandy.     * Hedge funds and money managers slightly raised theirbullish bets on gold and silver futures on some safe-haven bidsin the week to Nov. 20, said the U.S. Commodity Futures TradingCommission.     * The White House on Monday threw cold water on the proposalof solving the problem of the so-called &amp;quot;fiscal cliff&amp;quot; bylimiting tax deductions and loopholes, instead of allowing taxesto rise for the highest earners in the United States.     * South Africa's gold mining industry, one of the country'smost important sectors, is on the brink and will collapse if nosteps are taken to boost its productivity, the world'sfourth-largest bullion producer Gold Fields said onMonday.     * Top gold producer China aims to produce between 420 and450 tonnes of the precious metal in 2015, up about 25 percentfrom 2011, while consumption may reach 1,000 tonnes by then, theMinistry of Industry and Information Technology said on Monday.     * Spot silver rose to $34.23 an ounce, its highestsince mid-October, before easing to $34.21.    * For the top stories on metals and other news, click, or         MARKET NEWS    * The euro was caught in choppy trade on Tuesday after eurozone and International Monetary Fund officials clinchedagreement on a new debt target for Greece in a significant steptowards releasing a much-needed aid package for Athens.     The euro briefly rose to its highest in nearly a monthagainst the dollar.     * Wall Street slipped on Monday, pulling back from lastweek's gains, as retailers fell on concerns about heavydiscounts at the start of the U.S. holiday shopping season andthe overhang of the &amp;quot;fiscal cliff&amp;quot; kept investors wary of makingbig bets.         DATA/EVENTS 0700 Germany   Import prices Oct                              0745 France    Consumer confidence Nov                        1245 U.S.      ICSC weekly chain store sales                  1330 U.S.      Durable goods orders Oct                       1330 U.S.      Chicago Fed Midwest Manufacturing Oct          1400 U.S.      CaseShiller home price index Sep               1500 U.S.      Consumer confidence Nov                                   PRICES      Precious metals prices 0025 GMT  Metal             Last    Change  Pct chg  YTD pct chg    Volume  Spot Gold        1750.14    1.65   +0.09     11.92  Spot Silver        34.21    0.10   +0.29     23.55  Spot Platinum    1610.49    1.75   +0.11     15.61  Spot Palladium    660.99    0.52   +0.08      1.30  COMEX GOLD DEC2  1750.60    1.00   +0.06     11.73         2224  COMEX SILVER DEC2  34.22    0.08   +0.24     22.59          637  Euro/Dollar       1.2988  Dollar/Yen         82.02  COMEX gold and silver contracts show the most active months  (Reporting by Rujun Shen; Editing by Himani Sarkar)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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