Tag: Sun-Mercury conjunction

(1 March 2026)  US stocks finished modestly lower last week on higher-than-expected wholesale inflation data and renewed worries over the negative economic impact of AI.  Not even the Nvidia earnings beat was enough to keep the market up.   Despite the dip, most of the indexes remain very close to their all-time highs. The decline was in keeping with expectations given the combined bearish effects of 1) Mercury retrograde on Feb 26, 2) Mercury Rx conjunct Venus on Feb 28 and 3) the Jupiter-105-Saturn alignment from Feb 19.  Our backtesting of...