In the quiet before a pivotal economic announcement, gold edged higher on Tuesday as the dollar softened — a familiar dance between currency and commodity that has played out across centuries of market history. Investors, neither fully committed nor fully withdrawn, are positioning themselves ahead of US inflation data that carries the weight of Federal Reserve policy expectations. The moment captures something enduring about markets: that anticipation itself moves prices, and that the space between knowing and not yet knowing is where fortunes are quietly made or lost.