Spot gold slipped 0.4% to $1,498.27 per ounce at 12:38 pm (1638 GMT). Prices firmed 0.5% last week on concerns of slowing global growth.
US gold futures fell 0.6% to $1,503.70 per ounce.
"Last week was getting fairly bullish for gold with the ISM and non-manufacturing numbers, but the jobs number was not terrible and that sort of dampened the bullishness in gold," said Ryan McKay, a commodity strategist at TD Securities.
"We also have the trade talks scheduled later this week," he said, noting that substantial bets are unlikely in the days prior to the outcome of those meetings. "All that's interpreting into a range-bound action for gold here."
The White House confirmed US-China trade negotiations are set to begin on Thursday in Washington, although news reports suggest Beijing may be looking to restrict the scope of any deal.
The Fed Open Market Committee's minutes from its September meeting are due on Wednesday.
A string of weak US economic data, including sluggish manufacturing activity and a sharp slowdown in services industry growth, heightened recession fears, although Friday's decent jobs report halted bullion's upside. Speculators slashed their bullish positions in COMEX gold and trimmed bullish bets on silver contracts in the week to October 1, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday.
"Gold continues to get appraised against the US bond yields and what the Federal Reserve is going to do next," said AxiTrader market strategist Stephen Innes in a note.
"So, while price action seems supportive enough to suggest a long bias remains intact, ... market participants likely need further evidence from the Fed Board that they are shifting to an easing bias to push prices significantly higher."
Lower interest rates tend to increase investor interest in non-yielding bullion.
"US data has just started to weaken and it will continue to weaken as we move into 2020 and ultimately that will raise some questions for equity markets and increase volatility there, and we could see further allocations into gold," TD Securities' McKay said.
Platinum rose 0.6% to $881.77, while silver shed 0.4% to $17.49, and palladium fell 0.1% to $1,663.25.