Both gold and silver had strong declines today following the release of the U.S. Labor Department’s jobs report. Estimates for today’s report were 185,000 non-farm payroll jobs would have been added in the month of November.

Gold, silver and palladium futures are trading higher on the day, and with the exception of platinum the precious metals have all shown gains.

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