Spot gold fell sharply below $1575 as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke did not give any hints of further quantitative easing.
The metal remained firm in early trade prior to the "speech" as European markets saw the yellow metal trade to $1599 unable to break the key $1600 level. Chairman Bernanke gave his semi-annual monetary policy statement and fielded questions from Congress in Washington DC. Some of the Chairman's highlighted speech....