By Claudia Assis
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude and gold futures ignored positive data on the U.S. job front to decline on Thursday, with both trading lower, giving back some of the previous session's gains. Oil for February delivery CL2G -0.66% declined 63 cents, or 0.6%, to trade at $102.54 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold for the same month's delivery GC2G -0.82% retreated $13.30, or 0.8%, to trade at $1,599.70 an ounce on the Comex division of the Nymex. Oil had gained 4.4% in the previous two sessions, and gold had gained 4.6% in a three-session winning streak. U.S. payrolls gained 325,000 jobs in December. Weekly jobless claims dropped 15,000 to 372,000 in the last week.
