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papertigger - without having looked at elroy's link my previous attempts at stocks:price correlation have not yielded anything significant over the last 5 years. sure, when the stocks were at their lowest (100kt) the price was at its highest $US4+ but the peaks and troughs don't particularly match.

the one thing that stands out and which is somewhat obvious is that copper prices rise at the beginning of the northern summer (apr/may). this also co-incides with the poorly paid copper miners in sth america going on strike (they know what they're doing). i thought that the GFC would have dissuaded them from striking in apr/may this year but copper miners at one of xstrata's mines in sth america still ventured out.

i would be interested in what your own investigations uncover - my own research was haphazard at best.