August 13: Gold and Silver Fall Roughly 2%

Gold dropped $16.10 to $1195.30 in London before it bounced back above $1200 in early New York trade, but it then fell back off into the close and ended near its early afternoon low of $1191.80 with a loss of 1.49%. Silver slipped to as low as $14.974 and ended with a loss of 2.15%.