Making sense of the industrial metals/LatAm equities divergence

The unusual divergence between the GSCI Industrial Metals and MSCI EM Latin America Index recently reflects a couple of developments which we suspect are one-offs. We think that the typical relationship between the two asset classes will reassert itself, albeit with lower metals prices coinciding with MSCI’s index for Latin America falling short of its other regional indices.

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