It seems only fitting that to kick off the last trading day of the year FX markets were just drifting. EURUSD traded down from 1.2964 to 1.2928 with little conviction in thin volume. Gold which took a pounding all week, crawled off the $1522.00 floor to $1563.57. Asian regional indices were higher with Shanghai +1.19% and the Hang Seng +0.13%. A slightly positive China HSBC manufacturing PMI read…