the mostactively traded gold futures contract rose 06 to 197520 a troy ounce wednesday after the federal reserve lifted interest rates to a 22year high analysts say gold prices were boosted by some investors betting that the july increase could potentially be the last one by the fed the yield on the 10year treasury declined to 3860 from tuesday’s 3911 making it more appealing to hold gold which doesn’t pay any regular income gold prices are up 82 this year powered by a banking crisis and hopes that the fed is near the end of its rateincrease cycle