* Spot gold was down 0.1% at $1,977.69 per ounce, as of 0044 GMT. U.S. gold futures also fell 0.1% to $1,981.30.
rival Credit Suisse on Sunday for $3.23 billion and assume up to $5.4 billion in losses, in a shotgun merger engineered by Swiss authorities.
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