@tk@pasture like i guess in a deranged way you can use stock quotes, and traders do, by like making your own index of "here's every business in transportation" or "here's every business in food" and then those going up or down can kind of forecast how speculators feel about food and shipping, but they ... don't. it's just like
oh naw the top 100 corpos took a shit/puffed up their stonks, this somehow means anything to john q public