The largest loss of gold last week , despite its high price

News published on Saturday , March 22, 2014
Gold prices rose on Friday, but the market saw the biggest weekly decline since November in the wake of the latest index from the Federal Reserve (Fed ) to increase interest rates may come in early 2015 .

The Janet Yellen President of the Council surprised the markets this week Btelmahaa that the bank may begin raising interest rates at the beginning of next year , and the price of spot gold 0.5 percent to 1334.76 dollars an ounce at 1832 GMT, after it fell on Thursday to 1320.24 dollars an ounce, the weakest level since the end of February

And increased gold futures in the American Stock Exchange Comex to $ 5.50 to $ 1336.00 an ounce , and silver rose 0.3 percent to 20.29 dollars an ounce and platinum 0.1 percent to 1427.70 dollars.

And palladium jumped 3.0 percent to 785.59 dollars an ounce, its highest level since August 2011 with the support of the launch of two boxes of indicators in South Africa and the expansion of Western sanctions on Russia's main producer of the metal .