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More monetary stimulus along with the largest economic relief package in U.S. history aided more than 10% gains across stock indices. This was the first week where all the TSP stock funds were in positive territory since the first week of February. The week started by stocks falling producing a lower low for the recent stock free-fall. Quickly sentiment turned around Tuesday when the first signs of a economic relief package was being put together by lawmakers. Stock indices gapped up Tuesday and ...

Another rocket ship rally in a bear market. Fun, huh? I guess it depends which funds you are in. The Dow jumped 1352-points, and unlike Wednesday, this time it held the rally held onto the gains into the close and closed near the highs. End of month rebalancing, dead cat bounce, whatever you want to call it, that was a big day for stocks. Unfortunately the biggest rallies tend to come in bear markets and a lot of people are on the sidelines in cash or bonds when we get them, so they tend to ...

Nothing like a little politics to kill a rally. The Dow was up over 1300-points at its high yesterday before very late announcement that the stimulus package was being held up by a few senators. The Dow ended the day up an impressive 496-points, or +2.39%, but stocks went out with a thud with the Nasdaq actually closing in the red.

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The market rallied vigorously on another Turnaround Tuesday. The Dow gained a record 2113-points, or 11.37%, which led the three major indices. We've seen these days before and they've turned out to be one hit wonders so far this month, so investors may be skeptical going into Wednesday. Bonds were up, and the dollar was down. There are some good signs, and maybe some bad, as we'll talk about below.

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The market continued its volatile ways with another 3% move in the Dow on Monday. Meanwhile we did see some pockets of strength and the Nasdaq was actually turning positive with 5 minutes left in trading, but that last 5 minutes sent it to the red side again. Smalls caps were down but still outperforming with a loss of less than 2%. That's where we are today - where a 1.88% loss is a small victory. Bonds and gold rallied sharply, and oil was up slightly.

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