Gold and silver split Friday

NEW YORK, March 8 (UPI) -- Gold and silver were split Friday with gold moving lower and silver higher, but movement was muted for each.

Gold shed 60 cents, settling at $1,577.40 per troy ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Silver gained 8 cents to reach $28.96 per ounce.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average set its fourth all-time closing high for the week, adding 67.58 points or 0.47 percent to 14,397.10.

Against the dollar the euro fell to $1.3002 from Thursday's $1.3107. Against the yen, the dollar was higher at 95.98 yen from 94.83 yen.

The British pound fell to $1.4917 from $1.5014. The dollar fell to 1.0285 Canadian dollars from 1.0294 Canadian.