Contracts for gold on Thursday were trading solidly higher after reports on the U.S.s economic recovery from the COVID pandemic. U.S. retail sales minus autos & gas rose 8.2% in March and U.S. initial jobless claims fell to 576,000 in the latest week. June gold
GCM21,
+1.77%
traded 0.7% higher at $1,749.10 an ounce on Comex.
