5:30AM Gold and silver slipped on Friday on stronger dollar, technical factors.
December gold fell $6.70 to finish at $604.20 a troy ounce on the NYME. December silver gave up 19.5 cents to close at $11.54 an ounce. October platinum fell $4.80 to close at $1,141.20 an ounce. December palladium settled with a loss of $7.70, at $316.40 an ounce. In other metals trading, the December copper contract lost 3.25 cents to end at $3.4605 per pound.

The front-month November light, sweet crude oil contract rose 15 cents to close at $62.91 a barrel. October heating oil fell 2.92 cents to finish at $1.6846 a gallon. Front-month October unleaded gasoline rose 4.81 cents to $1.5492 a gallon. December natural gas futures settled 30.8 cents higher at $7.34 per million British thermal units. On the New York Board of Trade, Arabica coffee futures rose slightly in end-of-quarter activity. October raw sugar finished 0.30 cent higher at 10.85 cents a pound.