gold and silver recovered slightly on thursday as the us dollar and treasury yields slipped after prices for the yellow metal settled at their highest level in more than a week   gold gcz22 for december delivery climbed 960 or 05 to 1737 per ounce on comex   silver siu22 for december delivery advanced 32 cents or 18 to 1859 per ounce   palladium futures pau22 due in december climbed 4120 or 2 to 206350 while platinum futures plv22 for october delivery climbed 1640 or 19 to 863 per ounce   copper prices hgz22 climbed 8 cents or 24 to 3512 per pound while gold is enjoying a reprieve hawkish central banks including the federal reserve and the european central bank could easily quash the rebound in precious metals craig erlam senior market strategist at oanda said “gold enjoyed a little reprieve on wednesday as yields pared recent gains and the dollar pulled off its highs i’m not sure we should get too excited about gold’s resurgence just yet” erlam said the ice us dollar index dxy was off 04 at 10940 while the yield on the 10year treasury tmubmusd10y was down 47 basis points to 3222