Gold (XAU/USD) prolongs its record-setting rally for the ninth straight day and advances over 3% on Thursday, climbing to the $5,600 neighborhood during the Asian session. Meanwhile, the non-yielding Gold seems rather unaffected by US Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome Powell's hawkish remarks on Wednesday that followed the highly anticipated decision to leave interest rates unchanged. This, along with the emergence of fresh US Dollar selling, assists the safe-haven Gold to prolong the record-setting rally for the ninth straight day and climb to the $5,600 neighborhood during the Asian session on Thursday. In the post-meeting press conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that inflation was still well above the 2% target. Gold shrugs off overbought conditions; ascending channel breakout remains in playThe overnight breakout through a short-term ascending channel hurdle near $5,303.94 keeps the bullish tone intact.