August 28: Gold and Silver Fall Roughly 1%

Gold waffled near unchanged in Asia and rose to see a $4 gain at $1214.30 in London before it dropped to a new session low of $1207.10 by late morning in New York and then bounced back towards unchanged by midday, but it then fell back off again into the close and ended with a loss of 0.74%. Silver slipped to as low as $14.671 and ended with a loss of 1.08%.