(24 May 2026)  US stocks continued their powerful rally last week as strong Nvidia earnings and renewed hopes for a peace deal with Iran pushed the S&P 500 higher for the eighth straight week.  Crude oil fell sharply closing under $100 and took the pressure off Treasury yields as bonds followed stocks higher. The positive week was in keeping with our overall expectations given the bullish bias of the approaching Mars-Pluto square on May 25 and the broader Mars-Pluto-North Node alignment.  Last week's backtest study suggested that both alignments had a bullish bias and several of the tested time intervals reached statistical significance (p < 0.05). The updated cumulative trend chart for the Mars-90-Pluto square (n=27) shows prices generally tracking the...