SeriesMagCorrOverlapThrough
These move together about 44% of the time
Weak positive
Weak relationship — not much actionable signal here beyond directional colour.
US CPI
CPIAUCSL
Unemployment Rate
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What to Watch
Drifting from pattern
Recent correlation (-53%) is running 1.2σ away from the long-run average of +5%.
Holds across regimes
Correlation is similar when markets rise (-5%) and fall (-17%) — reliable in both directions.
Regime-dependent
The correlation has flipped sign across time windows — not reliable as a standalone signal.
Time Series
Time-Shifted Correlation
See how correlation changes when one series is offset in time. A taller bar at a non-zero shift means the two move together better when one leads the other — that's a potential lead/lag signal.
Correlation by shift
Click a bar to inspect. Range: -6 to 6 days.
Selected shift
No shift
Correlation at this shift
+5%
No shift — both series at their actual dates.
938 overlapping points at this shift
Time series with Unemployment Rate at original dates
Indexed to 100 at start
Deep Dive
Stability
How the correlation evolves over time. A stable line means the relationship is reliable; large swings signal regime-dependent behavior.
Corr
+5%
Pearson correlation
95% CI
-1% → +11%
Likely range
R²
0.3%
Variance explained
Trend agreement
44.3%
Same-direction moves
Significance
n.s.
Statistical confidence
Data points
938
Deep
Pipeline
Pipeline Summary
938 paired data points survived the daily window.
Raw input
950
938
Normalized
950
938
Prepared
950
938
Aligned
938
938
Invalid removed
Explore
The strongest positive and inverse pairs we’ve saved for each side of this comparison — good jumping-off points if this result raised a question.
Do They Crash Together?
How these series behave when markets are rising, falling, or diverging. A correlation that holds in drawdowns is very different from one that only works in rallies.
Both Rising
-5%
84 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
-17%
14 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-28%
151 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
Scatter
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Duplicates removed
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Alignment drops
12
A: 12 / B: 0
Series A
CPIAUCSL
FRED · 950 raw → 950 prepared
Series B
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FRED · 938 raw → 938 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
1
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
0.0010
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
5.5415
Linear regression intercept.
Saved 2 days ago · ID: fred:cpiaucsl|fred:unrate|5Y
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Unemployment Rate
Strongest positive