Tag: stock market

(18 February 2026)  Synopsis: Thursday's "hidden" Jupiter-Saturn alignment introduces some downside risk to the market over the next week or two. Evidence from previous 105-degree Jupiter-Saturn aspects suggests a bearish bias in its aftermath, although none of the intervals tested quite reached statistical significance.  Combined with next week's Mercury Rx-Venus conjunction, a pullback of indeterminate size becomes more likely over the next two to three weeks. Sunday's newsletter focused mainly on the upcoming Saturn-Neptune conjunction on Friday, Feb 20.  And yet upon closer inspection, I realized this was no ordinary...