Mars is retrograde now (January 24-April 14), so matters could get tricky here. This is an indicator of sudden changes in policies, such as we witnessed last week when the Fed thought it prudent to announce that it would maintain a zero-interest policy for three years instead of just another 1-1/2 years as announced previously.

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 This should be another interesting week. ... But that is not all. .... Will these reversal signatures lead to a new 2-year bear market?

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.........The bottom line is that these two signatures indicate a change of collective psychology and also political direction. And this can directly cause a sudden change of trend in many financial markets. It can abort the positive technical environment that had been building, give or take two weeks.

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Greetings from Zürich, Switzerland, where the weather is cold but the economy continues hot. You know, in America there is a lot of political discussion about “American Exceptionalism.” But we hear very little about the “Swiss Exceptionalism.” Yet here is a country that is doing extremely well economically at a time when America and most of Europe is not.

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