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13 surprising stock market indicators

POSTED: 07:39 AM PST Mar 05, 2013 UPDATED: 07:40 AM PST Mar 05, 2013

Find out how underwear sales, snow totals and more are used to predict the direction of the stock markets.

Stock market indicators 1- New York Stock Exchange floor — 1 / 15

CNBC and Finance Manila detail the 13 most surprising things that have been used over the years to try to predict the direction of the stock markets.

Stock market indicators 1- New York Stock Exchange floor

Stock market indicators 2 - High skirt, inappropriate, office, provocative

Stock market indicators 3- Winter Snow Blurb

Stock market indicators 4- Super Bowl tickets

Stock market indicators 5- Bieber Billboard Award

Stock market indicators 6- Lipstick, lips, cosmetics

Stock market indicators 7 - Harvard graduation

Stock market indicators 8 - calendar pages

Stock market indicators 9 - Aspirin, white pills, drugs, prescription

Stock market indicators 10 - Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue

Stock market indicators 11 - UPS cardboard shipping boxes

Stock market indicators 12 - Underwear, panties on clothes line

Stock market indicators 13 - Obama head shot

Stock market indicators 14 - Measuring cup, butter, whisk, baking, cooking, kitchen

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