From Marketoracle.co.uk: Commodities, normally a late-performing group, led the stock market by 12 months. Gold, the most sensitive to the movements of the dollar, reached a low seven months before the Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) Index and 19 months before the S&P 500.

Fundamental demand for natural resources was still extremely weak, but prices rose on the expectation of a lower greenback….. Full Article: Source