We show 90 equity-commodity market correlations around the world have fluctuated about their respective broken trends since the early 1990s. Each of past eight major financial crises has precipitated breaks in the levels/slopes of some correlation trends, and each correlation trend has been...

This paper examines the effects of economic policy uncertainty shocks on stock-bond correlations for the US market. We devise a general framework which distinguishes a positive shock from a negative one and nests either as its special case. The results show that innovations in the policy...

Addressing the view that recent hikes in the commodity-equity correlation will only be temporary, this paper differentiates itself from previous studies in two aspects: It examines the long-run trends and the short-run fluctuations of the commodity-equity correlation, and it does so to indices...