(4 October 2026) Stocks were mixed last week as the weak jobs report took the pressure off bond yields as prospects for a second Fed rate hike diminished. While the NASDAQ was higher on the week, the S&P 500 finished fractionally lower and the Dow and broader averages fell for the fourth straight week. The deteriorating breadth story continues to dominate the news as market indexes are being held up by a few big names while the most stocks are now below their 200-day moving average.
This mixed outcome may have reflected the range of influences last week. While the Venus retrograde station (exact Saturday Oct 3) carries a small but discernible negative influence, other alignments may have served to offset more bearish scenarios. Based on a 85-year backtest of 16 previous cases, the ongoing heliocentric tertiary progressed alignment of Mercury and Venus in the NYSE chart is a more bullish influence. The updated cumulative trend chart below shows that the S&P 500 (SPX) is loosely tracking the historical mean and median of this alignment, even if the Dow (DJIA)...
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