Correlation may not be causation but it seems more than a few funds were using precious metals as collateral for their levered longs in AAPL...
Something changed on the evening of 1/23... (hint)...
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as Gold's almost perfect correlation with stocks fell apart the moment AAPL reported... margin calls anyone?
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...and for those wondering about Gold's relationship with stocks - today's equity push and gold weakness takes the ratio of the S&P 500-to-Gold perfectly to the average level post-Lehman...
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Coincidence, perhaps?
Charts: Bloomberg