OREANDA-NEWS Gold is getting cheaper on Friday morning, breaking the mark of 2.4 thousand dollars per troy ounce, the quotes of the precious metal may be influenced by investors' expectations about monetary policy in the United States, according to trading data.

As of 9.56 Moscow time, the price of the June gold futures on the New York Comex exchange is rising by $ 3.25, or 0.14%, to $ 2,401.36 per troy ounce. May silver futures rose 0.33% to $28.447 per ounce.

Many analysts pay special attention to the forecasts of monetary policy in the United States, as they expect it to have a significant impact on global financial markets, including gold futures trading. It was doubts about the imminent reduction of the refinancing rate by the Federal Reserve System (FRS) that caused the departure of gold quotes from record values reached days earlier.

Investors paid attention to the speech by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday. According to the CME Group, after his words, most analysts no longer predict a reduction in the discount rate in the summer.

The rise in the price of gold, which began the day before, can still be regarded only as a correction.

In addition, data on the number of unemployment claims in the United States for the week ended April 13, which amounted to 212 thousand, were published on Thursday. Analysts expected an increase to 215 thousand.