June 22 (Reuters) - Gold prices held steady on Thursday after hitting a three-month low in the previous session following remarks from U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that further interest rate hikes were on the table.

FUNDAMENTALS

* Spot gold held its ground at $1,932.93 per ounce by 0028 GMT. U.S. gold futures dipped 0.1% to $1,943.30.

* Benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury yields were down to 3.723%, while the dollar index held close to Wednesday's lows.

* Further rate increases are "a pretty good guess" of where the U.S. central bank is heading if the economy continues in its current direction, Powell said in remarks on Wednesday to lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

* Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee said on Wednesday the central bank needs more clarity on inflation and the labor market's trajectory before deciding on its next step.

* Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic, meanwhile, became the first policymaker to suggest the Fed would need to wait at least past its July meeting to decide on further rate increases.

* Interest rate hikes raise the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion.

* Elsewhere, the Bank of England is seen raising interest rates by a hefty half-a-percentage point on Thursday as inflation failed to ease in May.

* Swiss gold exports rose in May after falling to their lowest in 10 months in April due to higher shipments to India, Swiss customs data showed.

* Indicative of sentiment, SPDR Gold Trust GLD, the world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, said its holdings fell 0.19% to 932.30 tonnes on Wednesday from 934.03 tonnes on Tuesday.

* Spot silver ticked up 0.1% to $22.671 per ounce, platinum rose 0.4% to $945.11, and palladium added 0.3% to $1,351.16. DATA/EVENTS (GMT) 1100 UK BOE Bank Rate June 1230 US Initial Jobless Clm weekly 1400 EU Consumer Confidence Flash June 1400 Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivers semiannual monetary policy testimony before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee

(Reporting by Arundhati Sarkar in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)