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What is Dr. Copper saying about growth?
Industrial — Copper / Gold Ratio

The price of copper ('Dr. Copper', the industrial-growth bellwether) divided by gold (the haven) — a market-based growth/risk gauge.

How Copper front-month divided by gold front-month, against its own trailing average.Formula Copper / GoldSource Yahoo Finance — computed

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How to read A rising ratio describes a growth-leaning regime (copper outpacing gold); a falling ratio a defensive / risk-off one. Present-state, vs its own average.

A descriptive co-movement gauge — it describes the current growth lean, it does not predict the cycle.

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