Takeaway: Get the US dollar right, you'll get a lot of other things right - like copper, for example.

What's good for the US dollar is bad for commodities these days. We see that correlation across many different commodities, but copper prices are showing a particularly strong correlation as you can see in the chart below. The chart shows high grade copper prices versus the the US dollar index for the past 30 days.

Copper and the Dollar - Copper vs USD