gold futures rose wednesday for a second straight session finding support as us benchmark stock indexes traded mostly lower and the dollar weakened investors seem to be gravitating towards gold as rising omicron variant cases accelerate the flight to safety said lukman otunuga manager market analysis at fxtm how gold concludes the first trading week of 2022 however will be influenced by not only the fomc meeting minutes due out at 2 pm eastern time but by the key us jobs data on friday he said if these reports reinforce expectations over the federal reserve raising interest rates three times this year this could send zeroyielding gold lower february gold gcg22 rose 1050 or 06 to settle at 182510 an ounce