TSP Talk Blog

01/03/12

Happy New Year, everyone! 2011 was a wild ride that ended basically where it started. The S&P 500 finished flat (0.04 below where it started the year), while the Dow was up about 5%, and the Nasdaq was down about 2%.

The Dow lost 69-points on Friday as the market stuck with the recent trend of being down on the last day of the year, rather than the long-term trend of being positive.

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01/01/12

Happy New Year! Now what?

Thanks to a big sell-off on Wednesday and an equally large rally on Thursday, this past week was not quite the typical Christmas to New Years holiday week. But after a year like we had in 2011, I guess this was an appropriate ending.



For the TSP, the C-fund lost 0.58% on the week, the S-fund was down 0.73%, the I-fund gained 0.81%, while the ...