This paper examines the degree of correlation and possible causation between the prices of gold, oil, short- and long-term interest rates, U.S. equities and the U.S. currency value against the Euro and British Pound. The data set utilizes daily returns for the period between the beginning of...

Is there a relationship between the performance of US equity markets and the value of the US dollar? The question is of practical and regulatory significance. Previous attempts to answer the question relied upon on the lagged causality approach of Clive Granger and his coauthors. Given that...