(4 January 2026) Stocks ended lower in the final week of 2025 as investors elected to take profits ahead of the turn in the calendar. I had been uncertain about last week given the mix of active influences. The bearish effect of the Mars-Neptune square was at the end of its active range last week but could have played a role in the pullback. However, the upcoming Sun-Mars-Venus conjunction on January 9 offered the possibility of offsetting other negatives, and that may well have boosted sentiment on Friday, the first trading day of 2026.
The triple conjunction of Sun, Mars and Venus may well play a more bullish role this week. My analysis showed it had a statistically significant bullish...
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