From men's underwear to dinner parties: unusual financial indicators

It's not surprising that the financial world is obsessed with guessing what's around the corner. If you can work out what's about to happen to property prices, currencies, shares, bonds - or a indeed anything else that people buy and sell - then you can get ahead of the market and make a killing.

It means that over the years there have been a number of more unusual suggestions of 'indices' that can apparently tell us about the future.%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%