An intermarket signal predicts the returns of one market from the past returns of another that reflects the same fundamentals sooner, such as a commodity for its producers or a bond market for rate-sensitive stocks. Slow diffusion is the mechanism behind it: information reaches the prices of different assets at different speeds because investors specialise, attend to few markets, or face costs of trading, so prices that should move together move in sequence.
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