US markets definitely decided on a risk-averse end to 2011, dumping euros and precious metals at a rate of knots Thursday.
MIAMI, FL - The main blame for Thursday's slide in the price of gold, given that the final week of the year is holiday time in the US and trading is necessarily thin, seems to lie with the ongoing situation in Europe. Despite recent loans to banks from the ECB, the European banks have not done a gre...