April 26: Gold Gains While Silver Slips

Gold waffled between $1266.40 and $1261.40 in Asia and London before it jumped up to $1266.80 in late morning New York trade and then pared back to $1260.40 in the next couple of hours, but it then jumped to a new session high of $1270.40 in the last minutes of trade and ended with a gain of 0.45%. Silver slipped to $17.33 before it also rallied back higher, but it still ended with a loss of 0.79%.