5:00AM Gold and silver futures end mixed Wednesday following dollar moves.
The most-active December gold shed $1.50 to end at $623.80 a troy ounce. December silver settled 5.5 cents higher at $12.945 an ounce. January platinum moved $2.40 lower to close at $1,170.80 an ounce after hitting a nearly two-week low of $1,158. December palladium dropped to the lowest level in more than a month, $313 an ounce, before settling down 70 cents at $318.80. December copper advanced 0.55 cent to end at $3.0945 per pound.

The front-month December crude oil contract oil gained 48 cents to $58.76 a barrel. December heating oil settled up 2.92 cents to $1.6924 a gallon. December gasoline rose 3.73 cents to end at $1.5821 a gallon. December natural gas settled up 14.3 cents at $8.120 a million British thermal units.

On the New York Board of Trade, fund and other speculative buying pushed the December Arabica coffee contract, which ended higher 2.35 cents at $1.1815 a pound. Futures on raw sugar in foreign ports for March settled 0.12 cent higher at 11.79 cents a pound, while May finished up 0.12 cent at 11.90.