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Your daily horoscope: January 31, 2026

  IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY Your passion for work will take up a large percentage of your time this year and your efforts will be praised far and wide. But you also need to set aside time for the people in your life who require something different, not least your love. ARIES (March 21 - April 20): You may be tempted to push yourself even harder and faster this weekend but the planets indicate you will accomplish more if you slow down a bit. Why do all the difficult stuff yourself when you can easily persuade others to assist you? TAURUS (April 21 - May 21): The best way to impress people in positions of authority isn’t to make a big show of what you are doing but to stay calm and get through your tasks one at a time. They don’t want flashy workers, they want ones they can rely on. GEMINI (May 22 - June 21): You could be too nice and too forgiving for your own good over the next 48 hours, especially when dealing with people who clearly are not as quick of mind and body as you are. A...

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Stocks Rally, Yields Fall on Fed’s Mixed Messages



The stock market rallied and bond yields fell after the Federal Reserve sent mixed messages about its future policy. 

The Federal Reserve is in a “sweet spot” and may start cutting interest rates in the first half of 2024. The rally in the bond market is driving global bonds to their best month since 2008. The Bank of Japan left its policy rate unchanged and appeared in no hurry to remove negative interest rates. The yen slumped as much as 1.1% to the weakest level in a week, while the Nikkei 225 Index rallied 1.4% to a two-week high.


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