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Gold, Silver Fall

Ivaylo
04 Aug, 2006
Metals

    The metals faced a very nervous market as some small buying was seen early as the euro rallied versus the dollar, but once that dried up, the metals drifted lower. Gold, silver, platinum, palladium all fell, together with crude oil and gasoline. Only Arabica coffee futures gained, hitting a three a three-month high.

[R]5:00AM Gold, silver, oil fall, ignoring ECB warnings for raising the rates.[/R]
December gold ended down $7.10 at $657 a troy ounce and September silver closed down 15.5 cents at $12.09 an ounce. October platinum finished down $14.10 at $1,246.50 an ounce, while September palladium ended the session down $4.30 at $324.65 an ounce. The benchmark September copper contract slipped to a weekly low of $3.4325 per pound before finishing 10.15 cents lower at $3.4895 per pound.

September crude-oil finished 35 cents lower at $75.46 a barrel after hitting an intraday low of $74.65. The September gasoline contract sank 3.77 cents to close at $2.3000 a gallon. The September heating oil contract dipped 1.59 cents to $2.1135 a gallon. On the New York Board of Trade, Arabica coffee futures hit three-month highs. September ended 2.15 cents higher at $1.0585 a pound, after trading as high as $1.0890 a pound. Futures of raw sugar in foreign ports dipped to 7-month lows before recovering. The October contract finished down 0.25 cent at 14.28 cents a pound.

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