In other metals trade Monday, April platinum PLJ5, -0.42% fell $10.20, or 0.9%, to $1,148.60 an ounce, while June palladium rose $4.80, or 0.6%, to $822.95 an ounce.
May copper HGJ5, -0.50% rose 6.2 cents, or 2.4%, to end at $2.671 a pound.
Greece’s financial saga helped gold futures settle higher for the first time this month, with the precious metal benefiting on Monday from haven-related buying interest on renewed worries about Athens’s ability to fund itself.
Gold futures for April delivery GCJ5, -0.06% on Comex rose $2.20, or 0.2%, to settle at $1,166.50 an ounce. Prices have suffered declines in each of the past five trading sessions, losing a total of 4% last week.
May silver SIK5, -0.23% fell 3.1 cents, or 0.2%, to settle at $15.776 an ounce.
Tokyo (Nikkei Average NIK, +0.29% ) up 0.2% (at break)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index HSI, -0.53% ) down 0.6%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index SHCOMP, -0.54% ) down 0.6%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200 XJO, +0.25% ) up 0.3%
Seoul (Kospi SEU, -0.36% ) down 0.4%
Taipei (Taiex Y9999, -0.28% ) flat