LONDON - Gold slipped in afternoon trade as the dollar strengthened a touch after firm third-quarter GDP numbers from the US, which have thrown the Fed's expected rate cut next month into some doubt, analysts say. The greenback had already bounced back this morning from its overnight losses after Wall Street's sterling performance yesterday, when stocks gained some 2.5 pct, their best day in over four years. The GDP numbers, which showed economic activity grew at its fastest pace in four years, have further underpinned the currency . Gold is seen as an alternative investment to the dollar and typically trends in an inverse relationship to it. "A lot of the activity we have seen above the 800 usd level was on expectations of an interest rate cut," said Kitco Bullion Dealers' analyst Jon Nadler. "Perhaps the reading today will make people think they have cut enough." At 2.34 pm, spot gold was trading at 795.40 usd per ounce, a day low, aga...