gold futures

StreetInsider.com Notable ETF Movers: HIGHER;

• United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG) up 1.15% to $10.58.
  
  Still riding the wave of greater than expected declines in inventories, Henry Hub natural gas February 2010 contracts are up $0.29 to $5.797, a 0.5% increase over yesterday's close.
• SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) up 0.94% to $108.37.
  
  GLD is up despite gold futures and spot being down marginally on a stronger dollar. Contracts of February 2010 gold futures are down $2.50 to $1104.90, a 0.2% drop.

LOWER:

• SPDR S&P Retail (NYSE: XRT) down 2.26% to $34.53.

New York gold futures put up their biggest numbers in two weeks on Wednesday, as the US dollar retreated prior to the Fed's announcement that it would keep interest rates unchanged.

Other precious metals followed with silver rising 1.4 percent and platinum inching 0.4 percent higher. Crude oil rallied nearly 3 percent and briefly reached over $73 a barrel.

US Stocks ended mixed.

Commodities were on fire Monday as another drop in the US dollar weighed into the mix. New York gold futures surged 2.0 percent to a fresh all-time high while silver soared 5.9 percent.

Crude oil rebounded from a one-month low. US stocks joined in with their own rally, as the major indexes reached new '09 highs ...