Stores of value cracked into the New York close. Gold shed 3.43% to $4,114.46 and silver fell 4.84% to $60.63, while the crypto complex bled in parallel. The tape was dominated by red across both.

Metals

Silver led the group lower, down 4.84% on the session and 10.02% on the week, though it still holds a 29.54% gain over the year. Gold’s 3.43% slide to $4,114.46 trims its 12-month advance to 7.35% and deepens its monthly loss to 7.71%. Palladium fell 2.84% to $1,220.62 and platinum eased 2.52% to $1,723.54, with palladium now off 15.08% over the month β€” the steepest monthly drop of the four.

Crypto

The losses ran deepest in the smaller tokens. GRT dropped 15.13% to $0.0303, the day’s biggest loser, followed by UNI down 9.04% to $8.803 and Polkadot off 7.67% to $1.167. Bitcoin Cash lost 7.44% to $307.39, while Dogecoin fell 3.31% and Cardano 3.93%.

The majors held far better. Bitcoin eased just 1.21% to $83,422.26 and Ethereum was near flat at $2,680.62, down 0.26%. Both retain monthly gains of 7.42% and 10.93%.

Two names ran the other way. LNK jumped 8.62% to $15.224, the session’s biggest gainer, and Stellar rose 5.03% to $0.22623. Even after the day’s declines, several tokens hold heavy monthly gains β€” Polkadot 42.84% and UNI 71.70%.

Currencies and Indices

The dollar firmed at the margins. USDMXN rose 1.36% to 17.982, extending a 3.97% weekly and 5.60% monthly climb, and the greenback added 0.24% against the Swiss franc to 0.83139. EURUSD slipped 0.08% to 1.13661 and GBPUSD edged up 0.21% to 1.32529, while USDJPY sat little changed at 157.36.

US equities closed lower. The Nasdaq 100 fell 0.97% to 30,271.7 and the S&P 500 lost 0.51% to 7,683.31, though the Nasdaq keeps a 3.54% monthly gain and 23.06% over the year. The Dow eased 0.27% to 51,485.3. In Asia, the Nikkei 225 dropped 0.92% to 65,877.59 while the Hang Seng added 0.66% to 24,671.76. Crude held firm β€” USOil flat at $91.95 and UKOil at $98.15, both up more than 3% on the week and roughly 46% on the year.

Metals and crypto remain the session’s clear weak spots into the new week.