The library already has received about 400 requests from researchers all over the world looking into topics ranging from the rise of citizen journalism to tracking vaccination rates to predicting stock market activity.

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Also puzzling is that the Citi respondents have raised their cash allocations despite predicting strong stock market returns for the year.

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Using a sample of 262 data points over a nine year period from July 2002 to August 2011, CXO found that the HSNSI had little power in predicting future stock market returns.

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Fourth: Predicting that the stock market will increase following a recession is somewhat akin to predicting the sun to rise after the night.

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On the other hand, research by Yale University Professor Robert Shiller, widely credited with predicting both the stock market crash of 2000 and the housing bust, has shown that momentum in home prices has staying power.

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Meanwhile, the economy is merely catching up to what the stock market has been predicting for it.

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The dividends will change every year as GDP is announced, and predicting these changes will certainly interest investors, just as in the stock market.

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If there really were such a simple and reliable indicator of future economic conditions, predicting the recession would have been easy, betting on the economy via the stock market would wither and we'd probably see an eyebrow derivatives market.

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