Cross-Asset Insights
How moves in currencies, bonds, commodities and equities feed into one another.
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How Geopolitical Risk Spreads Across Global Markets
How geopolitical events move markets: the order in which asset classes react, why the first move is often the largest, which channels persist beyond the headline, and why the main...
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How Macroeconomic Conditions Affect Bitcoin and Crypto Markets
How macro conditions affect crypto: why Bitcoin has traded as a long-duration risk asset, its correlation with technology equities, the liquidity channel, why the 'digital gold' framing has not held,...
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How Stock Markets and Currency Markets Are Connected
How equity and currency markets connect: the three channels — capital flows, translated earnings and risk sentiment — why a weaker currency can lift an index, and why the relationship...
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How Oil Prices Affect Currencies, Inflation and Stock Markets
How an oil price move travels through markets: which currencies rise and fall with it, how it enters inflation and therefore interest rates, why equity sectors split, and why the...
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The Relationship Between Gold, Real Yields and the US Dollar
Why gold trades against real yields and the US dollar: the opportunity-cost mechanism, where to read the real yield, why gold is a real-rate hedge rather than an inflation hedge,...
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How Inflation Affects Stocks, Currencies, Commodities and Bonds
How inflation affects four asset classes: bonds lose real value, currencies trade on the rate response, equities depend on whether margins or the discount rate win, and commodities are both...
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How the US Dollar Affects Commodities and Global Markets
How the US dollar affects commodities and global markets: why a stronger dollar tends to weigh on oil and gold, how it tightens conditions for dollar borrowers abroad, what it...
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How Bond Yields Influence Global Financial Markets
How bond yields influence global markets: what the 10-year yield represents, why it is the discount rate for everything else, how it moves equities, currencies and gold, and why real...
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How Interest Rates Affect Currencies, Stocks, Gold and Bonds
How one interest rate decision travels through four asset classes: why the currency strengthens, bond prices fall, equities reprice on the discount rate and gold weakens — and the order...
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Risk-On vs Risk-Off: How Market Sentiment Moves Different Assets
Risk-on vs risk-off explained across five asset classes: which assets rise and fall together in each regime, why the yen and franc strengthen in stress, how the dollar plays both...