* Spot gold down nearly 3 percent for the week

* Spot gold looks neutral in $1,173-$1,182/oz range-technicals

* Silver, platinum, palladium set for weekly losses

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By Apeksha Nair

BENGALURU, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Gold eked out small gains inAsian trade on Friday after declining to a 19-month low in theprevious session, but the metal remained on track for itsbiggest weekly decline since mid-2017.

Spot gold XAU= was up 0.1 percent at $1,175.22 an ounce,as of 0637 GMT, while U.S. gold futures GCcv1 were down 0.2percent at $1,181.30 an ounce.

For the week, spot gold has shed 2.9 percent in what couldbe its sixth consecutive weekly decline. It hit its lowest sinceJanuary 2017 at $1,159.96 on Thursday on some aggressivestop-loss selling.

"Investors, businesses and perhaps a lot of people arelooking to pick up gold and that's why we're seeing somesupport," said Brian Lan, managing director at dealer GoldSilverCentral in Singapore.

A mild correction in the dollar, after the currency gainedagainst most peers this week, also lent support to gold'srecovery. A weaker dollar makes greenback-denominated goldcheaper for holders of other currencies.

The dollar edged further away from a 13-1/2-month high hitearlier this week, as risk aversion eased after China agreed tohold lower-level trade talks with Washington this month,offering hope that they might resolve an escalating tariff war. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N1V71F9

Weakness in emerging-market currencies amid the Sino-U.S.trade spat and Turkey crisis has seen investors pour money intothe U.S. dollar, leading the greenback to serve as a safe-havenasset during uncertainty.

"The dollar is still trending higher and is the safe-havenvehicle of choice, so gold is still under pressure from thatsource," said Nicholas Frappell, general manager with ABCBullion.

"It's reasonable to expect (gold) prices to retrace some ofthe recent aggressive move-down in the short-term, but theredoesn't seem to be evidence for a sustained move higher yet."

Spot gold looks neutral in a range of $1,173-$1,182 perounce, and an escape could suggest a direction, Reuterstechnicals analyst Wang Tao said. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N1V81P1

Meanwhile, trade-talk hopes kept Asian stocks buoyed onFriday, which also drew confidence from a sustained recovery inthe Turkish lira after it plunged to a record low earlier thisweek. MKTS/GLOB urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N1V714O

Finance Minister Berat Albayrak assured internationalinvestors on Thursday that Turkey would emerge stronger from itscurrency crisis, insisting its banks were healthy and signallingit could ride out a dispute with the United States. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N1V70CX

Among other precious metals, silver XAG= inched up 0.2percent to $14.64 an ounce, but was headed for its biggestweekly decline since early February.

Platinum XPT= rose 0.4 percent to $780 an ounce, but wason track for its biggest weekly drop since November 2015.

Palladium XPD= was up 0.1 percent at $890.50 an ounce, butstayed on track to post a weekly fall.

(Reporting by Apeksha Nair and Sumita Layek in Bengaluru;Editing by Amrutha Gayathri and Subhranshu Sahu) ((Apeksha.Nair@thomsonreuters.com; within U.S. +1 651 848 5832,outside U.S. +91 80 6749 6408/1298; Reuters Messaging:apeksha.nair.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))