Gold settled 0.4% higher, up five of the past six sessions, and silver also rose 0.4%, up for a seventh consecutive session.

President Donald Trump is forging ahead with his aggressive tariff campaign, moving on from “reciprocal” tariffs to the sector-specific tariffs he promised.

Products like laptops, smartphones and the components needed to make them accounted for nearly $174 billion in U.S. imports from China last year. The administration’s plans suggest that such ...