Today, gold eased from a more than one-week high as hopes for global measures to soften the blow of the coronavirus outbreak increased appetite for equities.

For instance, spot gold was down 0.1% at $1,575.35 per ounce as of 06:51 GMT, having touched its highest since February 4 at $1,577.89 earlier in the session. However, U.S. gold futures were flat at $1,578.50.