Crude rally persists as gold, silver, cocoa see losses

Commodities summary for Thursday shows that the rally of crude prices has persisted amid reports of OPEC reluctance to effect deeper cuts as U.S. shale outputs are on the increase.

Brent, WTI, corn, soybean and wheat prices ended the day on a positive while gold silver and cocoa prices closed with losses. Cotton, for the second consecutive day, and coffee prices remained same as they opened for the day.

The time for opening prices was at 8am EDT (12 noon GMT) on Thursday June 29 and closing prices were at 1pm EDT (5pm GMT).