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Stocks floated modestly higher on Friday, with little push back from the bears, and after some panic selling following the release of the prior week's jobs report (in the futures market) stocks came back strong and posted gains between 1% and 1.7%% in the TSP funds last week.

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TSP Talk Sentiment Survey results for the week of 04/13/15- 04/17/15

The TSP Talk Sentiment Survey came in at 50% bulls, 28% bears.

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It was another positive week for stocks that started off with the reaction to the prior Friday's poor jobs report, an example of bad news is good news if it means potentially prolonged low interest rates from the Federal Reserve. From there we saw slow and choppy action through midweek until stocks rallied starting early Thursday and continued into the close on Friday. The TSP stock funds finished up between 1% and 2%, and the F fund had a slight loss.

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Stocks were mixed on Thursday with the Dow gaining a modest 56-points while small caps ended the day with a small loss. It may be the calm before earnings season gets rolling, although the 0.28% loss in bonds was a bit of a shake-up.

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Stocks bounced around quite a bit yesterday with talks of interest rate hikes in June, and later FOMC meeting minutes being released, but by the close the indices closed modestly higher. The Dow added 27-points which was well off the morning highs.

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