Gold held steady early on Tuesday as easing Asian stock markets and geopolitical concerns helped the yellow metal hover close to one-month peaks.

FUNDAMENTALS

* Spot gold rose 0.1 percent to $1,268.36 per ounce at 0105 GMT.

* U.S. gold futures were flat at $1,267.80 an ounce.

* Sunday that Italy's next election be held at the same time as Germany's, saying this made sense from a European perspective.

* May's lead over the opposition Labour Party dropped to 6 percentage points in a poll published on Tuesday, the latest to show a tightening race since the Manchester bombing and a U-turn over social care plans.

* Japanese household spending fell 1.4 percent in April from a year earlier in price-adjusted real terms, government data showed on Tuesday, compared with economists' median estimate of a 0.7 percent decline.

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