Financial astrology

As with astrology in general, predictions are vague and hard dates are rarely given.

[2] It was reported that some clients asked for their copies to be delivered in 'brown paper' to avoid mockery [citation needed].

[4] In 2000, Bloomberg News was host to a weekly show dedicated to financial astrology.

The practice was used by Goldman Sachs in a paper released in 1999, focusing specifically on the correlation between eclipses and the state of the financial market at that time[citation needed].

Though floated as an idea by the company at the time, analysis showed that random data produced similar results.