On Comex Wednesday before the Fed news, April platinum PLJ5, +3.31% fell $1.10, or 0.1%, to end at $1,092.60 an ounce, while June palladium PAM5, +2.33% tacked on $2.50, or 0.3%, to $764.65 an ounce.
May copper HGK5, +1.58% fell 6.25 cents, or 2.4%, to settle at $2.5705 a pound, its lowest settlement in over a month.
Gold futures climbed past $1,170 an ounce in electronic trading Wednesday, extending gains from the regular trading session as the U.S. dollar took a hit in the wake of the Federal Reserve statement, which signaled that the central bank was ready to take modest steps toward rising rates.
April gold GCJ5, +1.71% on Comex settled at $1,151.30 an ounce on Comex, up $3.10, or 0.3%, before the Fed announcement. On Tuesday, prices settled at the lowest level since early November.
May silver SIK5, +2.82% fell 3.7 cents, or 0.2%, to settle at $15.541 an ounce for the Comex session, then climbed to $15.935 in electronic trading.
Tokyo (Nikkei Average NIK, -0.54% ) down 0.6%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index HSI, +1.29% ) up 1.3%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index SHCOMP, +0.27% ) up 0.3% (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200 XJO, +1.71% ) up 1.7%
Seoul (Kospi SEU, +0.45% ) up 0.4%
Mumbai (Sensex 1, +0.72% ) up 0.7%
Taipei (Taiex Y9999, +0.89% ) up 0.9%
