By Chris Becker
Back from a long weekend, US markets shrugged off European debt concerns and pushed risk higher with the S&P500 above 2100 points for the first time ever, while gold and silver were slammed as USD took a breather.
First in Europe, the DAX continued its retracement in the cash market before rebounding in post-close futures, down 0.25% of the former but catching up to the S&P500 on the latter:
