gold futures declined for a second session in a row on monday with us benchmark stock indexes up along with the dollar and treasury yields it would be a surprise if gold didn’t fall on monday said adrian ash director of research at bullionvault expectations that the federal reserve will pause interestrate hikes at its meeting this week is “pretty much 100 priced in so all eyes are on wednesday’s language and dot plots” he said gold for august delivery gcq23 fell 750 or 04 to settle at 196970 an ounce on comex