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This Chinese new year could bring good fortune to stockmarket investors
CHINESE people across the world ushered in their new year on January 23rd,
which according to 3,000 year-old Chinese astrology is the year of the
dragon. This critter is not a mythical beast. Physignathus cocincinus, to
give its Latin name, is associated with power, authority and good fortune.
For those looking for good news among the grim January headlines, this could
bode well for stockmarket fortunes over the coming year. Between 1900 and
2011, the nine previous dragon years have seen America's Dow Jones
Industrial Average price index increase by an average of 7.7% in real terms,
the second-best historical record of the 12 zodiac animals. Such fortune
may be short-lived however; next year's animal, the snake, has the second-
worst historical record. | p*********8
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