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>Stewart and Mark:
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>First, the leader is the Merc. They lead the Simex by a factor of almost 10
to 1 on many days.
thanks
>I also would not underestimate the effect of certain flows like
oil...Again, these flows are more readable when they are re-calculated on a
currency basis. For example, oil rates are not particularly cheap to those
countries that have seen their currencies plummet on the Asian crisis. Maybe
commodities should be
>calculated in a basket of currencies and the commodity group split to
reflect industrial commodities[oil, metals, building materials] and
foodstuffs[grains
>and others]?
>Tim Morge
Well then we are getting somewhere, we could maybe get some of this data at
least in the US as part of a sector index. And forget the individual
markets. I will see what I can find in the way of similar foreign indexes,
this may be the way to go. This would allow many more items to be thrown
into a basket. I'm not sure the more the merrier though.
MB
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