(16 August 2026) Stocks were mostly higher last week as the latest inflation report came in within consensus expectations. The S&P 500, the Russell 2000 and the NYSE Composite each hit new all-time highs although the Dow ended the week slightly lower. This bullish outcome was more likely given the strength of ongoing planetary alignments.  As our recent backtest showed, last Wednesday's solar eclipse was likely to coincide with a modestly positive price effect given its wide conjunction with Jupiter.   However, the updated cumulative chart below suggests current price action (red line) is much more bullish than historical norms (the mean and median lines), no doubt as a result of other simultaneous bullish alignments. The 60-degree sextile of Jupiter and Uranus (exact July 21) is one of those bullish alignments.  Unlike the Jupiter-aligned solar eclipse, the JU-60-UR aspect exhibited statistically significant effects across several time intervals.  The updated cumulative trend chart below shows how the current sextile (red line) is closely tracking the historical norms for this bullish aspect as the DJIA has risen about 4% since the start of the...