Plants and animals under stress may provide the key to better stock market predications
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 14:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Stock markets react to crisis in a similar way to plants and the human body, according to a major new study that may help to predict future financial down-turns. An extensive analysis of biological and financial data suggests that systems under stress exhibit similar symptoms, whether they be polluted forests, cancer patients or the FTSE 100.