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What lumber and gold prices tell us about the stock market's next move

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FoolsMooney
2021-06-17
FoolsMooney
Looks like market will be fine for next quarter
RC_ADRIC
2021-06-17
RC_ADRIC
Nice

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See full story .\nGETTY IMAGES","content":"<p>Commodities have an effect on stocks but the one to watch is platinum. See full story .</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cae56c9abdfe2e326972f59f852b6c04\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"840\"><span>GETTY IMAGES</span></p>\n<p>Lumber prices have experienced one of their biggest and quickest plunges in history— with the spot futures contract dropping more than $670, or 40%, in just 25 trading sessions.</p>\n<p>It’s human nature to try to find meaning in this, since the alternative is to accept that price changes this momentous are nothing more than merely random fluctuations. None of us like to accept that our investment portfolios could be subject to such cruel twists of fate.</p>\n<p>One way in which some are finding meaning in lumber’s decline is via a market-timing indicator based on the ratio of lumber&nbsp;to gold.One&nbsp;study&nbsp;found that when the ratio is higher than where it was 13 weeks previously, conditions should be favorable for U.S. stocks. When it’s lower, U.S. Treasury bonds are preferred.</p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, given lumber’s recent plunge, this ratio’s current message is bearish for stocks. (See chart below.) To help determine how much weight to place on that message, I tested the ratio back to 1984 — which is how far back data extend on FactSet. 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The table below reports the relevant data, which tell a similar story as the table above.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8a25f2a5327104a15712a37d05c39479\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"265\"></p>\n<p>To be sure, this discussion is not an exhaustive analysis of the lumber-gold ratio’s potential value. There may be other ways of slicing and dicing the data that uncover ways in which it can be of use to investors. Nevertheless, the data would seem to suggest that the recent downturn in the lumber-gold ratio is not in and of itself a huge cause for alarm.</p>\n<p>None of these results guarantees that the stock market won’t experience a correction in coming weeks, or even begin a bear market. It very much could, at any time, given&nbsp;how overvalued the stock market is. 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See full story .\nGETTY IMAGES\nLumber prices have experienced one of their biggest and quickest plunges in history— with the spot ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-lumber-and-gold-prices-tell-us-about-the-stock-markets-next-move-11623811154?mod=home-page\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-lumber-and-gold-prices-tell-us-about-the-stock-markets-next-move-11623811154?mod=home-page","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2144713396","content_text":"Commodities have an effect on stocks but the one to watch is platinum. See full story .\nGETTY IMAGES\nLumber prices have experienced one of their biggest and quickest plunges in history— with the spot futures contract dropping more than $670, or 40%, in just 25 trading sessions.\nIt’s human nature to try to find meaning in this, since the alternative is to accept that price changes this momentous are nothing more than merely random fluctuations. None of us like to accept that our investment portfolios could be subject to such cruel twists of fate.\nOne way in which some are finding meaning in lumber’s decline is via a market-timing indicator based on the ratio of lumber to gold.One study found that when the ratio is higher than where it was 13 weeks previously, conditions should be favorable for U.S. stocks. When it’s lower, U.S. Treasury bonds are preferred.\nNot surprisingly, given lumber’s recent plunge, this ratio’s current message is bearish for stocks. (See chart below.) 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