why is gold so low

As it turns out, Black Friday's best sales were neither in electronics, clothing, or gadgets. Instead, they came from today's gold price.

That's because on the biggest shopping day of the year, gold prices hit a new six-year low.

Closing at $1,055.90 per ounce on Friday, Nov. 27, on the New York Mercantile Exchange, gold's popularity seemed to also hit a new low since the February 2010 price of $1,045 per ounce.

But as you'll see, while the near-term reasons for a lower gold price are familiar ones, the reaction to these low prices was not typical...