This week's WWAT? is
the simplest yet, comparing Google's normalized data for financial
searches of 'China' with those containing 'Eurozone'. It will come as
no surprise that the grip on the world's imagination which China
seemed to exercise during March and April was lost pretty quickly in
May as the Eurozone's crisis reasserted itself.
A similar search,
comparing 'China real estate' with 'Eurozone crisis' provided a
little more detail: the world has been far more interested in what
Google has to say about Chinese real estate than about the Eurozone
crisis until. . . . the last 10 days, actually.
Why have I chosen this
chart? Partly because it allows me to run another chart, which I
submit as my Spurious Chart of the Week, in which I notice the
remarkable correlation between the absolute performance of the CSI
300, and the relative lookup frequencies of China and the Eurozone (both averaged over 10 days). I
think you'll agree, the correlation is spooky.
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