Gold
futures rose the most this month after minutes from the Federal
Reserve™s January meeting showed policy makers argued for keeping
interest rates near record lows for longer. Silver advanced.
Bullion
for April delivery added as much as 1.7 percent, the most since Jan.
30, to $1,221 an ounce on the Comex in New York. It was at $1,217.70 by
10:13 a.m. in London, after touching a six-week low of $1,197.20 on
Wednesday.
Futures
trading volume was 40 percent below the 100-day average for this time
of day, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Gold for immediate
delivery climbed 0.4 percent to $1,217.78 in London, according to
Bloomberg generic pricing.
Holdings
in gold-backed exchanged-traded products rose for the first time in a
week, adding 0.1 metric ton to 1,670.4 tons as of Wednesday, data
compiled by Bloomberg show. Assets reached a four-month high on Feb. 9.
Silver
for March delivery advanced 2 percent to $16.585 an ounce in New York,
after dropping to the lowest since Jan. 9 on Wednesday. Platinum
increased 1 percent to $1,178.50 an ounce, rebounding from the lowest
since 2009. Palladium was little changed at $776.50 an ounce.
Source: Bloomberg
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