International gold prices fell 2.7%, approaching the psychological threshold of the $4,000 integer mark.

In late New York trading on Thursday, spot gold fell 2.71% to $4,028.58/oz, continuing its overall decline and trading in a range of $4,145.82-$4,021.32. Spot silver fell 5.87% to $54.5746/oz, trading between $57.9753 and $54.4901. COMEX copper futures fell 2.67% to $6.3985/lb. Spot platinum fell 3.86% to $1,568.54/oz; spot palladium fell 3.60% to $1,054.02/oz. The Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index, which trades during U.S. stock market hours, closed down 5.53% at 333.96 points, fluctuating narrowly at low levels for most of the session.