India, Aug. 18 -- Gold prices were modestly higher on Monday as the Alaska summit ended without any breakthrough.
Spot gold rose 0.4 percent to $3,349.03 per ounce in European trade while U.S. gold futures were up 0.3 percent at $3,393.90.
Friday's summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Putin in Alaska yielded no concrete agreements, but Russia agreed to "game-changing" security guarantees for Ukraine, helping inject new momentum into stalled efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
The leaders of the U.K., France and Germany will accompany Ukraine's president for crunch talks with Trump at the White House today in a bid to come to a negotiated settlement in the three-and-a-half-year-old conflict.
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