Commodities

Gold for immediate delivery shed $1.20, or 0.2%, to $668.55 an ounce, while silver for immediate delivery lost 3 cents, or 0.2%, to $13.13 an ounce. Aluminum for immediate delivery in London yesterday fell 1.9%, copper fell 3.1 %, lead, 0.6%, nickel, 2.6%, and zinc, 2.6%.

Crude oil for June delivery advanced 9 cents to $62.55 a barrel, in after-hours electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude oil for June settlement fell 20 cents to $66.63 a barrel in electronic trading on the ICE Futures exchange. Gasoline for June delivery fell for the second day and was trading at $2.2816 a gallon, down 1.96 cents in New York.

Currencies

The U.S. dollar was mixed against other major currencies in European trading Tuesday morning. The euro traded at $1.3533, down from $1.3541 late Monday in New York. The British pound traded at $1.9758, up from $1.9732. The dollar fetched 120.41 Japanese yen, up from 120.29.