Weekly Forecast: August 11 – 17, 2008

Summary of This Week’s Influences/All times listed are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). General Influences: Tuesday to midday Thursday is the most productive days of the week. Saturday’s Lunar Eclipse is a wonderful time to connect with friends and groups who share your vision. Stockmarket: As I wrote in last week’s forecast, “we’re now in the volatile time band between the August 1 Solar Eclipse and the August 16 Lunar Eclipse.” With the eclipse in fiery Leo conjoining Mercury, the stock market experienced a dramatic upside reversal. In Leo there’s a tendency to see the sunny side of things. News that Japan and the Eurozone economies are weakening was interpreted as good news, causing the dollar to rally and crude oil to enter bear market territory. (Apparently “decoupling” has become passé.) As I wrote in “The Commodities... [read full story]