How Will Rising Interest Rates Affect Commodities?
October 16, 2015 at 10:42 AM EDT
There’s a strong relationship between equities, bonds, currencies and commodities. It happens in a cycle: as the dollar gains, commodity prices fall, bonds go up while yields decline, and, finally, equities experience an increase. Not everything occurs at once, and lag is a natural part of the equation. But cross-connections can be difficult to predict and understand – such as how interest rates correlate with commodity prices.