The stock market this week will have its sights set on the Fed meeting March 21-22 and getting positioned for yet another interest rate hike based on its analysis of inflation and employment.
Astrologically, the planets point to confusion at mid-week, then clarity during Friday’s trade.
With Mars square Uranus on Tuesday evening, the Producer Price Index inflation report the following morning could have traders not knowing which way to turn.
The confusion increases on Thursday with reports on housing starts and weekly jobless claims. The sun and Mercury are conjunct Neptune in Pisces, so the data provide no clear direction. In addition, the sun square Mars and Venus square Pluto reveal stymied actions and trading profits.
Positioning ahead of the Fed meeting could come into focus on Friday. That’s when the sun and Mercury conjoin at 6:45 am. Mercury is “cazimi” (in the heart of the sun) from 11:58 pm Thursday until 1:53 pm Friday, which opens up communication channels for clarity and brilliance to come through. The sun/Mercury conjunction also is a time to look for a change of trend.
Venus also gives a boost to Friday’s trade because it enters its ruling sign of Taurus at 6:34 pm Thursday. There could be some disruptive, yet clarifying, news in overnight trading as Mercury (already cazimi) squares Mars.
Markets on the Move JBLU | JetBlue Airways The proposed $3.8 billion merger between JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines, announced July 28, 2022, has hit a roadblock. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on March 6 to block the sale on grounds it would reduce competition and increase fares. The two airlines combined would be the fifth largest in the country.
JetBlue’s incorporation horoscope of August 24, 1998 has Jupiter, ruler of growth and the law, at 25 Pisces. Neptune, which rules obfuscation, first hit that same degree on May 19, 2022 and last leaves it on December 28, 2024. This connection indicates that there are hidden or unknown details about not only the proposed expansion, but also the DOJ lawsuit that might not be clear until early 2025. However, there could be surprising news about the case this week as the sun and Mercury conjoin natal Jupiter and Uranus squares natal Mercury.
JetBlue stock began trading on April 12, 2002. From a stock price perspective, watch for lows in JBLU as first-trade Mercury at 28 Aries is conjoined by the following planets on these dates: (1) Venus on March 15; (2) Mercury on April 2; (3) sun and moon on April 18-19; and (4) Jupiter on May 9. The mid-April date is particularly interesting because the April 20 solar eclipse, with the energy of taking control and focusing on relationships with others, is aligned with the stock’s natal Mercury.
First-trade Venus at 14 Taurus is often in the spotlight at market highs for JBLU. Watch these dates for rallies or price peaks: (1) Mars square on June 13; (2) moon and Venus square on June 21; Mars trine and sun square on August 2-4; and (4) Mercury and Mars opposite on October 30-November 1.
Weekly Highlights Euro FX Low on Tuesday, March 14—Transiting Venus conjunct first-trade Saturn is the main aspect in play. Support in the nearby contract could appear at the planetary price conversion level of 105-06. The next level lower is 103-20.Soybeans Low on Wednesday, March 15—Venus is exactly square first-trade Pluto. In May soybean futures, watch for support at $14.78 per bu. to $14.90.Crude Oil Low on Friday, March 17—The transiting moon and Pluto form a strong T-square with the market’s first-trade Mars/Pluto opposition. Watch for strong support at $76.30 per barrel in the April futures contract.
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Social media refers to applications and websites – the collective of online communications channels – that enable people, companies, and other organizations to create and share content on social networking sites and blogs.
There are many applications (apps) and websites that are dedicated to social networking, forums, social bookmarking, microblogging, products/services reviews, social curation (Digg, Reddit), wikis, virtual worlds, and other types of social media.
Individuals, companies, and other organizations through social media create, share or exchange a range of things, including ideas, pictures, videos, career interests, opinions, jokes, complaints, experiences, and items of news. Both companies and individuals use social media platforms for marketing purposes too.
Social media is a term that we currently throw around a lot. Its meaning has widened considerably since its usage in language started to become popular. If we use the term to describe sites like Twitter and Facebook, and also Digg and Reddit, then its meaning starts becoming rather vague.
As commonly happens when a term is overused, social media is beginning to have different meanings for different people. People who have a more restricted view on what it defines tend to give it the same meaning as social networking – websites such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. Others will tell you that blogs are not included in its definition.
Elise Moreau, writing in webtrends.com, has an interesting and, in my opinion, accurate approach to the meaning of social media. She starts by looking at each word ‘social’ and ‘media’ individually:
– Social: refers to people interacting with each other by sharing information.
– Media: refers to channels of communications, including TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, billboards, and the Internet.
So, if we pull the meanings of these two separate terms together, we get:
“Social media are web-based communication tools that enable people to interact with each other by both sharing and consuming information.”
Social media depends on web-based and mobile technology to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and other entities can share, discuss, create, co-create and modify user-generated content.
It is significantly changing how we all communicate with each other and tell our network members about ourselves. Technoself studies focus on these changes.
Social media vs. traditional media
Social media differs considerably from traditional media – physical newspapers and magazines, plus TV and radio. While the former is a dialogic transmission system (many viewers and many creators all communicate with each other) traditional media operates under a monologic transmission system (there is just one source and many receivers).
Studies show that people are spending more and more time each week on social media sites, in many cases at the cost of other types of sites, and definitely at the cost of offline activities and even sleep. For advertisers, these types of sites and blogs have become extremely important.
In 2015, Nielsen.com reported that three of the most popular online brands worldwide were social media-related – Facebook, YouTube, and Wikipedia. Globally, we spend 22% of all our time online on these types of sites.
Three-quarters of global consumers with Internet access visit social networks or blog sites. The average visitor in 2015 spent 24% more time visiting these sites compared to 2014.
American business magnate, Bill Gates, who co-founded Microsoft and became the richest person in the world, once said: “The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration, and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice to people who would never have been heard.”
Negative effects
Several negative effects have been associated with social media, especially regarding privacy, information overload and Internet fraud.
Angry or emotional exchanges can eventually lead to serious and sometimes dangerous confrontations in the real world outside of the Internet.
Young and older naïve people can be lured by predatory pedophiles, murderers and rapists.
Studies suggest that social networking sites may have a negative effect on individuals’ self-esteem and self-worth. One study found that people with a greater social comparison orientation – they compare their own lives with those of their family members, friends and work colleagues – tend to use these sites more heavily compared to individuals with low social comparison orientation.
Take Facebook for example; most members tend to post positive aspects of their lives; this makes other people wonder why their own lives are not as fulfilling or exciting. This, psychologists say, can push susceptible people into depression and other self-esteem issues.
Online and mobile phone bullying has become a serious problem for both children and adults across the world.
Positive effects
Social networking and blogging sites are great places to document memories, advertise oneself, form friendships, and learn about and explore things.
In social networking sites we all have the possibility of becoming content creators. Networked individuals who create content can reach a wider audience.
If used effectively, it can positively affect people’s social standing and help them gain political support, which can lead to influence on issues they find important. Participants in the 2011 Tunisian revolution, for example, used Facebook to organize meetings and protest actions.
Many websites, such as Wiki, are the result of individuals creating and collaborating with other network individuals.
According to a survey carried out by Pew Internet Research, ‘networked individuals’ are involved in considerably more creation activities compared to their non-networked counterparts.
This image reflects normal behavior in society today. A significant proportion of people under the age of 40 spend more time staring into different-sized screens on their laptops, tablets, and smartphones than talking face-to-face to other humans. Much of that time is spent on social media sites – something that advertisers want to monetize.
Networked individuals typically take part in the following content creation activities:
Writing material on Facebook and other social networking sites. Sixty-five percent of internet users say they do this.
Sharing photographs – done by 55% of Internet users.
Reviewing products and contributing to rankings – 37% do this.
Creating tags of content – 33%.
Posting their comments on third-party blogs or websites – 26%.
Remixing material gathered online into a new creation: 15% say they do this with text, audio, video or photographs.
Creating a blog or working on one.
On many occasions, social media has been used to help in the search for missing persons.
“The future of communication, a countless array of internet-based tools and platforms that increase and enhance the sharing of information. This new form of media makes the transfer of text, photos, audio, video, and information in general increasingly fluid among internet users. Social Media has relevance not only for regular internet users but business as well.”
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