Tag: S&P 500

(14 December 2025)  US stocks slipped last week as skeptical investors moved money out of the AI sector and into value stocks following Wednesday's interest rate cut from the Fed.  Despite the decline, the major indexes remain within 1% of their all-time highs with the small cap Russell 2000 actually making a new high on Thursday. We had been somewhat neutral about last week given the mix of influences.  The aftermath of the Jupiter-Saturn and Mercury-Venus alignments argued for a bullish bias and the run-up to this Sunday's Mars-Neptune square...