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Copper Hits Nine-Month Low, Gold Gains

Ivaylo
09 Jan, 2007
New York City

    March copper had slipped to a nine-month low on Monday. It traded higher during the session on Monday, but then dropped again. Copper sold off in connection with the retreat in the crude oil market. Gold prices advanced modestly, with some dealers saying that physical demand appeared in the spot market during quiet trading conditions after the sell-off on Friday.

[R]5:00 AM Copper plunged to nine-month low, gold and silver gain modestly.[/R]
The most-active March copper contract plunged 0.70 cent to close at $2.5280 per pound Monday. February gold gained $2.50 to end at $609.40 a troy ounce and March silver rose 13 cents to finish at $12.36 an ounce. April platinum settled up $14.90 at $1,126.90 an ounce while March palladium declined $3 at $332.10 an ounce.

The front-month February crude oil contract lost 22 cents to close at $56.09 a barrel. Heating oil shed 0.87 cent to $1.5571 a gallon and reformulated gasoline fell 2.46 cents to $1.4685 a gallon. Natural gas advanced 19.4 cents to close at $6.378 a million British thermal units.

On the New York Board of Trade, March Arabica coffee futures finished 0.35 cent lower at $1.2010 a pound. March futures for raw sugar in foreign ports gained 0.07 cent to end at 11.16 cents a pound.

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