Investing.com -- The price of gold declined on intraday trading on Friday, but is still on track to finish the year with a 6% increase.
Gold was trading at $1155.80 per ounce, down $2.90, or 0.21%.
Silver was down too, at $16.04 per ounce, a decline of 0.17 cents, or 1.10%.
Other commodity prices, including platinum, palladium, and copper, were rising on intraday trading.
A major dip in the U.S. dollar index late this week is encouraging buying in the gold and silver.
Prices of gold and silver charts remain bearish, however.
A rhetorical conflict between the U.S. and Russia was impacting the dollar, which also slammed precious metals.
Russia's foreign secretary called the U.S. "foreign policy losers" for issuing sanctions over alleged, unproven hacking allegations against Moscow, and over-the-top claims that social engineering, or hacking, of John Podesta's G-Mail account led to the overwhelming electoral college defeat of Hillary Clinton in the presidential election this fall.