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All green across the board for TSP funds this week. This was a well anticipated week with the last FOMC meeting of the year along with scheduled tariffs on China coming up with no deal locked in. The result was a dovish Fed and a buzzer beater conclusion to the phase one trade deal. The Fed kept rates steady and made no notions to return to raising rates anytime soon. News that China and the U.S. have officially agreed on the details of the phase one trade deal sent stocks into positive territory ...

Stocks rallied on a Trump trade Tweet early on Thursday, then later again on news of some sort of phase 1 deal being made. The Dow ended the day up 221-points or 0.79%, which was about the same for the other big two major indices, although they were not able to close at the morning highs of the day, which was a little surprising given the news. Bonds pulled back sharply Thursday after Wednesday's rally.

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Stocks rallied at the open on Wednesday, sunk into the afternoon, then bounced back after the FOMC meeting and the release of the Fed's policy statement. The Dow gained 30-points on the day with moderate gains in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, as well as the Transports, and the I-fund. The S-fund lagged slightly closing just slightly north of flat.

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Stocks opened sharply lower on Tuesday but buyers stepped up right away to take the indices off their lows and into positive territory, before fading and closing slightly negative. The Dow lost 28-points after Monday's triple digit decline and that's just something we tend to see after a big jobs report driven rally.

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Stocks pulled back Monday to start off an important week for markets. The uncertainty surrounding trade and upcoming scheduled tariffs had some investors swallowing gains and moving to the sidelines. Last week's jobs report gave investors the confirmation bias they needed to have faith in the future of the economy. However it would be an uninformed gamble to buy further into stocks ahead of an FOMC meeting that won't include a rate cut as well as a tariff deadline coming Sunday with no ...