Futures Research Quarterly, World Futures Society, Winter 1006, Vol. 22, No. 4., p. 37-50.

This paper describes an approach for scanning financial news and economic indicators that can help outline technological evolutions and emerging trends.  While the stock market is not always included in the arenas where foresight is commonly used, investors' informational resources can function as scanning mechanisms with multifaceted benfits.  These informational tools can: 1) minimize environmental scanning efforts, 2) improve quality, depth, and expansion of the macro-environment, and 3) formulate rates, events, and other markers when developing timelines, s-curves and technology trajectories with quantifiable data.