Silver fixes higher, gold hits record in Europe

* Silver fixes at 1,748.00 cents, above its previous fix of 1,635.00 cents. * Spot silver bid at $17.44 an ounce at 1213 GMT against $17.20 late in New York on Tuesday. * Forward rates on Reuters pages indicated at 0.58, 0.58, 0.58, 0.58 and 0.62 percent for one, two, three, six and 12 months respectively. * Gold bid at $1,091.00 an ounce against $1,084.50. * Bullion hits record highs at $1,095.05 an ounce as dollar weakness adds to momentum sparked by the IMF's sale of 200 tonnes of gold to the central bank of India to push prices through key technical resistance levels. * Platinum bid at $1,358 an ounce against $1,355.50. * Palladium bid at $329.50 an ounce against $324.50. For related news and prices, click on the codes in brackets: Spot gold/silver Platinum/palladium Gold lease rates Comex gold futures <0#GC:> Europe/Asia prices CBOT 100 oz gold futures <0#ZG:> RELATED NEWS AND OTHER TOPICS Precious metals news [GOL] All metals news [MTL] Metals summary [GLANCE (GLCE.PK - news) /MTL] Index of summaries [GLANCE/] All commodities news [C] Metals diary [MTL/DIARY] Ldn Bullion Mkt Assoc Foreign exchange rates SPEED GUIDES