gold and silver traded lower again on wednesday after a brief respite tuesday as the yellow metal showed signs of stabilizing around 1750 per ounce for the mostactive contract   gold futures gcz22 for december delivery were down 360 or 03 to 1756 per ounce on comex   silver futures siu22 for september were off 17 cents or 09 to 1887 per ounce   palladium futures pau22 due in september were up 1560 or 08 to 1988 per ounce while platinum futures plu22 due in october were off 9 or 1 to 87280   copper futures hgu22 due in september were off 7 cents or 18 to 363 per pound what analysts are saying precious metals analysts blamed the rebound in the us dollar and longterm treasury yields for the weakness in gold over the past week but rupert rowling a precious metals analyst at kinesis money said that it looks like gold is finally stabilizing despite continued strength in both the dollar and yields “bullion is showing some interesting signs of a rebound or at least a stabilization despite the brilliant performance of the greenback and the fact that 10year treasuries yields are still above 3” rowling wrote in a note to clients wednesday the ice us dollar index dxy  a gauge of the greenback’s strength against a basket of rivals remained near a twodecade high trading at 10886 while the 10year treasury yield tmubmusd10y was flat at 3047