Gold turned lower and tapped the lowest in more than 10 months on Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve raised U.S. interest rates by a quarter point and signaled a faster pace of increases next year. The yellow metal fell 1.20 percent to $1,144.12 an ounce. Silver closed down 0.47 percent at $16.83 an ounce.

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