5:00AM Gold and silver advanced Tuesday amid thin trading, copper also gained.
The most-active February gold advanced $1.00 to end at $644.20 a troy ounce at the New York Mercantile Exchange. March silver ended 12.5 cents higher at $13.375. April platinum finished $1,180.60 an ounce, up $5.90 and March palladium closed $341.25 an ounce, down $3.70. March copper settled up 1.95 cent at $2.5615 per pound.

The front-month March crude oil advanced $2.96 to end at $56.97 a barrel. February heating oil gained 8.91 cents to close at $1.6380 a gallon, and February gasoline settled up 8.03 cents at $1.5213 a gallon while February natural gas gained 80.3 cents close at $7.740 per million British thermal units.

On the New York Board of Trade, March Arabica coffee futures declined 0.05 cent to finish at $1.1655 a pound. Futures on raw sugar in foreign ports for March lost 0.04 cent to 10.55 cents a pound, with May off 0.05 cent at 10.75 cents.