Spot gold was steady on Friday, after the euphoria around a coordinated effort to inject liquidity by central banks faded, ahead of a US employment report later today and a key eurozone summit next week. Spot gold edged down 0.1 percent to $1,742.20 an ounce by 0709 GMT, but is on course to rise 3.7 percent from a week earlier, its biggest weekly gain in a month. US gold inched up 0.4 percent to $1,746.30.