In precious metals trading, the market found support after a weaker-than-expected March U.S. payrolls report hurt the dollar.
June gold rose $3.60 to settle at $913.20 an troy ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
In the week's most widely anticipated U.S. economic release, the Labor Department said nonfarm payrolls fell 80,000 in March, the biggest decline in five years, after falling 76,000 in both January and February. The decline was worse than analysts expected and represented the third straight drop in U.S. payrolls. The unemployment rate moved sharply higher to 5.1%.
In other metals trading, May silver rose 27.5 cents to $17.755 an ounce, July platinum climbed $17.60 to $2,030.50 an ounce, but June palladium declined $3 to $444.40 an ounce. The most-active May copper contract rose 5.3 cents to settle at $3.9545 a pound.
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