gold futures climbed on friday to settle above the key 1800 mark for the first time since nov 22 with prices based on the mostactive contract posting a gain of about 11 for the week gold is back above 1800 and how it performs for the rest of the year may be tricky given the thin market conditions that will shortly settle in said edward moya senior market analyst at oanda omicron remains the biggest risk to the outlook and whether that leads to panic selling of risky assets or triggers some safehaven flows might have gold trade between the 1775 and 1850 trading range for the rest of the year february gold gcg22 rose 670 or 04 to settle at 180490 an ounce