Stock Market Follows Earthquakes

[nullpointer]

A new study out of the University of Tokyo has found something interesting about the Stock Market. It apparently follows similar patterns to how earthquakes occur, or heartbeats, except the size doesn't matter, the ups and downs are just as regular with low point swings as with very large ones, market crashing size swings. They emphasize that so far they aren't sure why they can plot these changes, and don't know if they would be able to stop a crash if predicted.

If the study is correct, then the big one should have hit right before the livedoor crash....

[Taro Toporific]

A new study out of the University of Tokyo has found something interesting about the Stock Market. It apparently follows similar patterns to how earthquakes occur....

Damn, damn, damn. I hate going to a URL for PUBLICALLY-FUNDED research only to find the website wants payment to read the full text. Arrrg.

[Mulboyne]

Here's a different way of making money from earthquakes:

Japan Times: Seismologist charged with swindling

Prosecutors Tuesday charged Japanese seismologist Hideki Shimamura with swindling Hokkaido University out of 20.2 million yen in school property -- five seismographs and peripheral equipment -- that he allegedly sold to Norway's University of Bergen in the late 1990s. Shimamura, 64, a former professor at Hokkaido University and an expert on undersea earthquakes, has denied the allegations, the prosecutors said. In the indictment filed with the Sapporo District Court, the prosecutors said Shimamura told the University of Bergen in September 1998 and in May 1999 that state-run Hokkaido University would sell it five seismographs and peripheral equipment and sent the devices to Norway. Shimamura at that time headed Hokkaido University's Institute of Seismology and Volcanology. The Norwegian university transferred the money into Shimamura's bank account, and kept the items.