Given Their Tight Correlation, Could Weakness in Lumber Prices Drag Housing Stocks Lower Too?

During the week of 8/18/12 lumber prices gapped open to start the week ~275 bps higher and at the time, were already up an astounding 38% YoY. Lumber is typically a rather subdued commodity so we thought the gap higher…...

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What does the SSEC Continue to See that Global Mining Plays Don't?

What does the SSEC Continue to See that Global Mining Plays Don’t?

We had a post the other day that suggested price action in the SSEC doesn’t carry much informational content value anymore. To some degree, YTD results justify this view with the SPX up ~12% and the SSEC down ~7%. However, what if this view…