SINGAPORE: Gold slipped on Wednesday after two days of gains as weak China trade data raised fears of an economic slowdown in the world's second-biggest consumer of the metal.
China has been a big support for gold prices, which have lost a quarter of their value this year due to a possible scale back of the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus, outflows from exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and import restrictions in top buyer India.
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