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Your daily horoscope: September 18, 2025

  IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY A birthday link between your ruling planet Mercury and Neptune means you must streamline the material side of your life over the coming year. A number of everyday matters have got far too complicated of late, so make simplicity your No. 1 aim. ARIES (March 21 - April 20): If someone is kind enough to tell you how or where you have done something wrong you should be kind enough to thank them for it, and take their advice. You cannot possibly know everything, so accept what they say with good grace. TAURUS (April 21 - May 21): You may be dreaming of faraway places but the planets warn you won’t be able to make your escape until you have taken care of various chores and duties both at home and at work. And even if you do get away your conscience will nag at you. GEMINI (May 22 - June 21): Your ruling planet Mercury moves into the most dynamic area of your chart today, so don’t hold back, give whatever creative project you are working on your very best effor...

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Stock Market Edges Higher Ahead of Christmas Break

                                          

US stocks looked set for a mostly muted open to a final, shortened trading session before the Christmas holiday. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (ES=F) were up 0.1%, while those on the tech-heavy Nasdaq (NQ=F) rose 0.2%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) hugged the flatline.

Wall Street is looking to enter its Christmas break rejuvenated, after tech stocks including AI chip giant Nvidia (NVDA) led the march higher on Monday. Markets close at 1 p.m. ET today and are off tomorrow for Christmas Day. Sizable gains on Friday and Monday have put the indexes back on the path toward their record highs, from which they took a Fed-fueled nosedive last week.

Wall Street is reassessing the path of interest rates next year as it grapples with the reality that the Fed mostly pulled off a so-called soft landing – but couldn’t fully shake the US economy’s inflation problem. According to the CME FedWatch tool, most bets are on two coming holds at the Fed’s January and March meetings, followed by a toss-up in May.

Meanwhile, many eyes continue to be trained on Nvidia, which saw a more than 3.5% gain on Monday. As Yahoo Finance’s Dan Howley writes, 2024 was Nvidia’s year, with the stock up some 180%. But 2025 could contain plenty of challenges.



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