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* Spot gold up more than 1 percent this week (Updates prices)
Gold steadied on Friday after hitting a nine-month peak in the previous session, as the market awaited U.S. jobs data for indications on the strength of the world's biggest economy.
Feb 1 Gold steadied on Friday after hitting a nine-month peak in the previous session, as the market awaited U.S. jobs data for indications on the strength of the world's biggest economy.
* Global demand for gold rose 4 percent last year- WGC (Updates prices)
Jan 31 Gold rose to its highest in nine months on Thursday, after the U.S. Federal Reserve paused its monetary tightening cycle, denting the dollar and putting bullion on track for its fourth straight monthly gain.
* Markets also eye U.S.-China trade talks (New throughout, updates prices, market activity and comments)
Jitters over global growth and a possible pause to U.S. monetary tightening are expected to set gold prices up for gains in 2019, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday, but the metal will struggle to break above recent highs.
Gold jumped to its highest in more than eight-months on Tuesday, on doubts surrounding U.S.-China trade relations and ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting with increasing expectations for a pause to the central bank's rate hike trajectory.
* Charges against China's Huawei exec add to uncertainty on trade (Updates prices)
A Spanish warship tried to order commercial shipping to leave anchorages in British waters near Gibraltar but was challenged by the British navy and sailed away, Gibraltar said, the latest example of tension over the strategic port as Brexit approaches.