Gold prices hold steady ahead of data-packed week.

Gold prices remain steady as traders await a busy week of economic data releases, including the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee meeting and the US employment situation report. Silver prices are up. The US government has taken over and sold the troubled First Republic Bank to JP Morgan, the second-largest US bank failure in history. Global stock markets are mostly higher, and the US dollar index is up. Gold and silver bulls have the overall near-term technical advantage.