Tag: Mercury retrograde

(9 November 2025) Stocks fell sharply last week as worsening consumer sentiment data signaled economic slowing and reignited recession worries.  Among the worst hit sectors was technology as investors may be starting to take a more skeptical view of elevated AI stock valuations.  The ongoing US government shutdown only added to the uncertainty as some passenger flights were canceled as a result of the shortage of air traffic controllers. The decline was broadly in keeping with expectations for a pullback given the bearish influence of the Mars-Uranus opposition and the...