Gold fell slightly against the dollar growth, sustained by the data on the U.S. labor market, which were better than expected. It was registered a decline in the unemployment rate to the level of 8.5% while the forecast growth of 8.7%. Also, the data recorded that by the endof December in the non-agricultural sectors of the economy was created 200K jobs, the forecast of 153K.

The cost of the February futures on the COMEX today declined to 1609.0 dollars per ounce.