This study examines the relationship between commodity futures and global stocks. For the first time, we examine the financialization of commodity futures by employing a quantile regression approach. From 2004-2013, we confirm a strong degree of dependence in energy commodities with moderate...

This is the first comprehensive study on the forecasting of the realized volatility of non-ferrous metal futures. Based on 8.5 years of intraday data on copper, zinc, nickel, lead and aluminum, we explore a variety of extensions of the univariate heterogeneous autoregressive (HAR) model and seek...