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Invest everything in the C-fund. That has been the investment strategy that has worked all year, especially in the first two weeks of June. But when is it time to take profits? And when is it too late to chase? The TSP Talk AutoTracker community thinks not today.

While other TSP stock funds whipped their investors around, the C-fund gave its investors a stream of steady gains in the first four days of this week. While the S and I-fund ...

__Sometimes I like to filter out the indexes to look for commonalities. This helps me understand what pushes and pulls the markets in unison (and what doesn't).

Comparing the S&P 500 with other indexes, if you have the S&P 500 you also have 1.23% of the Transports, 48% of the NASDAQ 100, and 31% of the Dow Jones Industrials

There are 6 shared companies listed in the S&P 500, the NASDAQ 100, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. An equally weighted portfolio of these 6 ...

Stocks opened higher on Thursday after another favorable PPI report - favorable as far as being less inflationary than expected, and a cool weekly jobless claims report helped as well. The initial reaction in the futures was a strong move higher but by the time the market opened the rally lost its steam, and that weakness continued until about lunchtime when we did see some dip buying. Small caps and the I-fund lagged badly again, and bonds rallied on a pullback in yields.

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Stocks jumped out of the gate this morning when the CPI report came in cooler than expected, lifting hopes that the fed will be cutting interest rates sooner rather than later, but a funny thing happened on the way to the Fed meeting - they actually sounded more hawkish than expected. There was a lot of volatility, as expected, but in the end stocks mostly held onto the big gains, although the Dow was down slightly. Bond yields and the dollar fell on the cool report and that helped bonds, small ...

Stocks opened sharply lower on Tuesday as it appeared there were some nerves in front of today's Fed decision on interest rates, and the CPI report, plus European stocks were down sharply overnight. But as has been the case repeatedly, what we see at the open has not been what we saw at the close as stocks rallied back and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both closed at new highs, thanks to Apple. But what about the rest of the market, because the S and I-funds were down again?

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