Negative Correlation between Stock and Futures Returns: An Unexploited Hedging Opportunity?

Parantap Basu and William Gavin

No 2011-005, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: The negative correlation between equity and commodity futures returns is widely perceived by investors as an unexploited hedging opportunity. A Lucas (1982) asset-pricing model is adapted to analyze the fundamentals driving equity and commodity futures returns. Using the model we argue that such a negative correlation could arise as an equilibrium relationship which reflects traders' perceptions about the shocks driving the fundamentals such as energy and consumables, and does not necessarily indicate any hedging opportunity.

Keywords: futures; equity; hedging; beta (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2011
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