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NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
Volume 69, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2023.102016
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Copper -to -gold ratio; 10-Year US treasury yield; Leading indicator; Relative Entropy; Kullback-Leibler divergence
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The copper-to-gold ratio often contains short-term credible information about the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, particularly in recent years and during periods of minimal economic shocks. However, false signals in this leading indicator are common, mainly during global macroeconomic turbulence.
Preliminary univariate and multivariate regressions, visual inspections, various relative entropy probes, and complementary Pearson correlation tests and Welch's t-tests all suggest that the copper-to-gold ratio often embeds rather short-termed (up to a few days) yet credible information about the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield. This phenomenon has been more noticeable in recent years and in times where no major economic shocks have developed. False signals in this leading indicator, however, are not uncommon, and they emerge mostly around global macroeconomic tremors. As declared by different market participants, in the absence of macroeconomic turbulences, the copper-to-gold ratio tends to be tightly coordinated (up to a few day lags) with the 10 -year U.S. Treasury yield, and as such, it can serve as a momentary leading indicator for the latter, although not always and not with complete precision.
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