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7 'Sure Thing' Stock Market Predictors Put to the Test

The problem with trusting in so-called market truisms is that they often defy common sense. But before we chalk them up to coincidence, let's see how oddities like the January theory or the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover theory have done so far this year.

The Hair Index: What Your Cut Says About the Economy

The oracles who read economic tea leaves have a host of conventional forecasting tools, but housing starts and job growth figures can only tell you so much. To cut through the haze of data, sometimes it takes an unconventional indicator -- for example, the Hair Index.