Gold futures for April delivery advanced 0.7 percent to settle at $1,667.30 an ounce at 1:40 p.m. on the Comex in New York. The metal is heading for a 12th straight annual gain. Holdings in bullion-backed exchange-traded products touched a record 2,410.2 metric tons on March 13.Silver futures for May delivery gained 1.1 percent to $32.955 an ounce, after plunging 4.7 percent last week, the biggest weekly drop this year.
Copper for three-month delivery declined, reversing a gain of 0.3 percent, on the London Metal Exchange. The metal fell 0.2 percent to $8,494.50 a metric ton. China’s February home prices posted the worst performance in a year with almost half of the cities monitored by the government falling from a year ago as the country maintained curbs on the property market. New home prices fell in 27 of 70 cities last month from a year earlier and prices were unchanged in six cities, the national statistics bureau said in a statement on its website yesterday.......... get FREE MCX TIPS for today here @ http://commodity-intraday.blogspot.in/2012/03/free-mcx-tips-mcx-trend-and-updates-for.html -- Get latest market updates & search internet right from your browser-download our toolbar here- http://investorline.ourtoolbar.com/ Visit our site at – http://investorline.co.in/ Newsroom: http://newsroom.investorline.co.in/ Learning Center- http://learning.investorline.co.in/ Mutual funds - http://mutualfunds.investorline.co.in/ Life Insurance - http://insurance.investorline.co.in/ Investor Journal - http://research.investorline.co.in/ Newscatcher- http://catcher.investorline.co.in/ Interested in Financial Planning-Let us Contact you- http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pb_z4f1_zGMg4iBBFT3-SWQ&email=true If you like the site then promote it here- https://www.freetellafriend.com/tell/?url=http://investorline.co.in/blogs/news Create your own free blog on- http://investorline.co.in/blogger Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/india-investor
