PRECIOUS-Gold rises near 13-mth peak on bets

* Resisting dollar also sustaining gold

* Bullion has jumped almost 1 pct since Friday's healthy US jobs

* Fed holds next policy meeting on March 15-16 

* Gold sophisticated to trade near a 13-month high on Tuesday, sustained by a Resisting dollar and expects the U.S. Federal Reserve wouldn’t increase interest duties as soon as next week's meeting.

*A lot of investors are annoying to expect a 'no rate hike' situation, causing a bit of a raise in gold," said Ang. He added that a wobbly worldwide wealth and the recent strength in the U.S. dollar, which had limited U.S. exports, could convince the Fed to hold rates stable.

*Spot gold was gain 0.3% at $1,270.76 an ounce by 0200 GMT, not far from Friday's climax of $1,279.60, its maximum since February. 3, 2015.

*U.S. gold for April delivery picked 0.6% to $1,270.90 an ounce.

*The dollar has been resisting finding traction despite a healthy U.S. Feb. employment report on Friday, its sufferers expanding this week as a rally in oil rates rekindled demand for the euro and commodity-sensitive currencies.

*That has benefitted gold along with fairly low market prospects that the Fed would increase interest duties again next week after lifting them for the 1th time in nearly a decade in December.

*Asian stocks inched upper after worldwide oil rates raised to 3-month highs on rising expects of more coordinated actions from oil-producing countries to stem dipping rates.

*Spot silver increased 0.3% to $15.697 an ounce. Spot platinum and palladium were stable at $1,000.76 and $574.06 correspondingly, both near multi-month highs reached on Monday.

*China's crude oil imports in Feb. increased 20.2% on a daily basis compared to same month previous year, getting a fresh record, official customs data demonstrated on Tuesday.

*February's imports also leaped 27.4% on the last month to hit 31.80 million tons, or 8.0 million barrels/day (bpd)(Posted By Share Shoppe)