[BRIEFING.COM] The broader market has rallied to session highs over the last half hour, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (+1.01%) moving above 1% gains with two hours to go on the trading day.
Gold futures settled $16.40 higher (+0.6%) to $2,631.00/oz, surging to one-week high amid escalating Russia-Ukraine tensions and Federal Reserve rate speculation.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Dollar Index is largely flat at $106.28.