MW: Gold gains, oil turns up after consumer sentiment
By Myra P. Saefong
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures added to gains and crude-oil futures turned higher after a private report showed that U.S. consumer sentiment improved in mid-April. June gold (GCM11 1,480.90, +8.50, +0.58%) tacked on $5.90 to $1,478.30 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was trading around $1,476 before the data were released. May crude (CLK11 108.42, +0.31, +0.29%) rose 37 cents to $108.48 a barrel on Nymex, after trading below $108 shortly before the data were released.
