Gold rose further on Thursday on safe-haven buying as oil continued its ascent and on a sliding dollar, but it would have to crack key resistance levels to sustain the uptrend. "Gold is still capped by the big resistance at $837, and above at $846. I don't think much would happen ahead of the US long holiday weekend," said Peter Tse, a dealer at Scotia Mocatta in Hong Kong, referring to Monday's Labour Day holiday.
Physical buying ahead of the festive season in Asia has helped gold rebound more than 7 percent since tumbling to nine-month lows around $773 an ounce in mid-August. Spot platinum rose to $1,436.00/1,456.00 an ounce from $1,434.00/1,454.00 late in New York. "Platinum seems to be edging higher, but I don't think we are clearly out of the downside yet," said Koh of Phillip Futures.
Spot palladium inched down to $287.50/295.50 an ounce from $288.50/296.50 an ounce. Silver firmed to $13.60/13.66 an ounce from $13.49/13.55 an ounce late in New York. The new benchmark contract on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange, August 2009, rose 14 yen per gram to 2,944 yen per gram. New York gold futures added $3.2 an ounce to $837.20.