This paper examines the degree of correlation, and possible causation, between the US Dollar (against the Euro and the British Pound) and the US equity market indexes (the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ composite). The information utilized in this study is the 14 year period beginning in January 1999...

The 2008 financial crisis refocused investors' attention to several safe-haven assets, most notably gold and US Treasuries. We compare the role of these two assets as potential hedge instruments for thirteen major indexes' returns and their volatilities. Our study extends the literature by using...