gold futures settled higher on monday but remained below the key 1800 mark as the market awaited wednesdays federal reserve decision on monetary policy the bear camp in gold and silver should be licking their chops as the markets widely expect the fed to announce the beginning of tapering of asset purchases on wednesday analysts at zaner wrote in mondays report with the added pressure of a surge in the dollar form last weeks lows and the recent rise in us shortterm interest rates the bear camp has several themes operating in its favor for now december gold gcz21 tacked on 1190 or 07 to settle at 179580 an ounce after posting a loss of about 07 last week