The price for an ounce of gold lost $1.40 Thursday and settled at $1,552.40 on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Silver lost 3 cents and closed at $26.77 an ounce. Against the dollar, the euro was $1.2932 from Wednesday\'s $1.2849. Against the yen, the dollar rose to 96.34 yen from Wednesday\'s 93.05 yen.