Gold has advanced $21.60 to US$1,263 an ounce for the April...

Gold has advanced $21.60 to US$1,263 an ounce for the April contract on Comex.

Silver has added 23 cents to $15.26 for May.
Copper has is up 3 cents to $2.21 a pound for May.

Oil has added 3 cents to US$34.69 a barrel for April light crude in New York

Wall Street closed up yesterday:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.3 per cent to close at 16,944,
the S&P 500 rose by 0.4 per cent to close at 1,993
and the NASDAQ advanced 0.1 per cent to close at 4,707.

European markets closed lower:
London’s FTSE shed 0.3 per cent,
Paris lost 0.2 per cent
and Frankfurt weakened 0.3 per cent.

Asian markets closed mixed:
Tokyo’s Nikkei added 1.3 per cent,
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slipped 0.3 per cent,
and China’s Shanghai Composite added 0.4 per cent.

The Australian share market closed higher yesterday:
The S&P/ASX 200 Index closed 60 points up to finish at 5,081.
On the futures market the SPI is 5 points higher.