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                             bond-market jitters contributed to the market's gains,
                             according to some market observers.

                             Troubled gold miner Ashanti Goldfields of Ghana was one
                             of the producers rumored to be buying back some gold
                             that been sold ahead in order to hedge against a price
                             decline. Ashanti declined to comment. A source familiar
                             with the company said, however, that Ashanti might be
                             making small buybacks, but that significant ones were
                             unlikely because it would need the agreement of all its
                             counterparties.

                             Fellow gold producer Placer Dome said it is suspending
                             its gold-hedging activities in light of improving gold
                             markets and reduced producer hedging.

                             Other market observers pointed to bond-market tumult as
                             a significant underlying factor in gold's gains. The
                             benchmark 30-year U.S. Treasury bond soared
                             Wednesday and Thursday amid talk that some traders
                             had been caught with short positions they were unable to
                             fill with cash bonds. There was also consternation in the
                             Treasury market about the unusual long-end inversion of
                             the yield curve.

                             Friday, Treasurys reversed course, with the long bond
                             falling more than a point on inflation jitters sparked by a
                             stronger-than-expected January jobs report.

                             "Gold does best in times of uncertainty," said Jeffrey
                             Christian, managing director of CPM Group, a New
                             York-based research and consulting firm. "The economic
                             world is changing and no one's quite sure how the
                             intermarket relations between debt, equities,
                             commodities, and interest rates will work. People are
                             saying maybe a little bit more exposure to gold makes
                             sense."

                             Key Wall Street names were among those firms that
                             were thought to have lost money this week when trades
                             based on the direction of U.S. rates went sour, and major
                             European financial firms probably had made similar
                             trades, traders and strategists said.

                             "It's just as likely that European institutions have been
                             caught on the wrong side of the market move as those in
                             the U.S.," said Stephen Lewis, chief economist at
                             Monument Derivatives, a London brokerage.

                             March silver jumped 28.4 cents, or 5.4%, to end at
                             $5.572 an ounce. Buying in silver was inspired by the
                             gains in gold, market observers said.

                             April platinum gained $4.70, or 1%, to finish at $479.50
                             an ounce after rising nearly 2% Thursday on strong
                             industrial demand and only a trickle of supplies coming
                             out of Russia, dealers said.

                             Among industrial metals, March copper added 0.15 cent
                             to settle at 82.75 cents a pound.

                             Crude-oil and product futures settled higher at the New
                             York Mercantile Exchange, as strong heating-oil prices
                             kept sellers out of the energy complex.

                             March heating oil rose 0.88 cent, or 1.1%, to end at
                             78.78 cents a gallon after jumping 3.1% on Thursday.

                             March crude oil climbed 79 cents, or 2.8%, to settle at
                             $28.82 a barrel after rising 1.7% Thursday. April crude
                             rose 69 cents, or 2.5%, to $27.82 a barrel following
                             Thursday's 1.7% advance.

                             March unleaded gasoline added 1.27 cents, or 1.6%, to
                             finish at 79.83 cents a gallon after a 2.5% rise Thursday.

                             March natural gas jumped 8.3 cents, or 3.1%, to settle at
                             $2.742 per million BTUs after falling 3.6% Thursday.

                             Soaring prices in the physical heating-oil market in New
                             York Harbor set the complex's bullish tone, traders said.
                             The prices for immediate barrels in the Harbor were as
                             high as $1.88 a gallon, or more than double the futures
                             price. "You're not going to have a lot of selling of heating
                             oil futures with the physical market that high. The
                             question is, why aren't futures higher?" one analyst said.

                             Another said the product and crude market look at each
                             other for cues, and none were showing signs of
                             weakness. "Crude traders will look at heating oil traders
                             and say, 'well if you're not dropping neither are we,'" said
                             Victor Yu, an energy analyst at Refco in New York.

                             Since Tuesday, when March products began trading as
                             the front-month contract, March heating oil has gained
                             6%, as has March gasoline. March crude, meanwhile,
                             gained 5%.

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