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TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Ups on Thrift Savings Plan funds performances and other market insights.

  1. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up

    Stocks continued their climb this week as investors saw this holiday week as another opportunity to put any sidelined money to work with the seasonality bias. This paid off as Friday's action was more than on par with the usual post-Thanksgiving upside that was expected. However, we are now about to enter a week where we tend to see profit taking from the upside action surrounding Thanksgiving. With the action we've seen since the election, this does seem like a likely scenario as some market players ...
  2. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up

    Stocks were up again this week as traders continue to capitalize on the rally produced from the presidential election. In the spotlight is small cap stocks that have outperformed large cap stocks significantly. Large cap stocks are still up though, but the big name tech stocks are not the driving force as usual which signals a possible change in the economic environment. We have a holiday week coming up which historically produces a spike in stocks with black Friday sales attracting holiday shoppers. ...
  3. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up

    We've talked before about the uncertainty of this year's election that has created timid traders and investors the last couple of months as the election approached. That uncertainty wore off Monday as a rally was attributed to the increased probability of a Clinton win after the FBI dropped her e-mail case again. This meant a familiar market for traders as you would expect more of the status quo that we've seen from the past eight years with Obama in office if Clinton won. It was logically predicted ...
  4. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up

    Stocks fell everyday this week past as the election is approaching with no clear winner. There is also no telling how the market will react to a win from either candidate. On top of that, the Fed met this week and conveyed the possibility of a rate hike in December despite the poor conditions the market has experienced the last couple of months.

    The jobs report came out Friday and 161,000 jobs were added in October and the unemployment rate was reported as 4.9%. This was less than ...
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