5:00AM Gold futures ended flat on Monday, while silver managed to rise.
The most-active December gold sank 90 cents at $603.30 a troy ounce. December silver futures added 10 cents up at $11.64 an ounce. January platinum settled up $9 at $1,159.20 an ounce. December palladium ended down $2.25 at $314.15 an ounce. December copper lost 3.10 cents to finish at $3.4295 per pound.

The front-month November light, sweet crude oil contract settled down $1.88 at $61.03 a barrel. November heating oil declined 5.17 cents to close at $1.7018 a gallon. Front month unleaded gasoline settled down 4.52 cents at $1.5087 a gallon. October natural gas advanced 2.3 cents at $5.643 a million British thermal units.

On the New York Board of Trade, December Arabica coffee futures closed down 4.10 cents at $1.0355 a pound and March lost 4.10 cents at $1.0740, spurred in part by beneficial weekend rainfall in Brazil. Futures on raw sugar in foreign ports for March slipped 0.43 cent at 11.32 cents a pound and May lost 0.35 cent to 11.50 cents.