Extreme correlation of stock and bond futures markets: international evidence

Chin Man Chui, Jian Yang
Financial Review,Vol. 47, Issue 3, Pages: 565-587.

This study explores time-varying extreme correlation of stock-bond futures markets in three major developed countries. In the United States and the United Kingdom, there is evidence of positive extreme stock-bond correlation when both futures markets are extremely bullish or bearish. In Germany, stock-bond futures extreme correlation is negative, suggesting the most diversification potentials of bond futures when German stock index futures market plunges. Macroeconomic news, the business cycle, and the stock …
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