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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

    The sell off in stocks resumed this week as the bears have had complete control of stocks this October. The pattern this week was two series of a sharp sell-offs followed by a rally the next day. In both cases the sell-off was more dominant than the buying that trailed. The net result was a loss of nearly 4% across major stock indices.

    It doesn't seem too useful as an investor to analyze why stocks are losing value suddenly. That just happens to be the case for now. Rather, one should ...
  2. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up

    Stocks continued their volatile action throughout the week as indices are recovering from the recent sell-off. After a slow start Monday, stocks built some of their best gains in months mid-week. Those gains were all erased Thursday and by the close on Friday we were back where we started for the week in the S&P 500. Small caps underperformed large caps as the early gains in the S-fund turned into losses.

    Bonds were also down for the week and the F-fund lagged the other TSP funds with ...
  3. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up

    Welcome to October. Most were given their second reality check this year of the risk in stock investing. It was a case of the butterfly effect where the true beginning is nearly impossible to pinpoint but left investors and analysts pointing their finger at high bond yields sparking the technical unwinding of stocks. We saw small caps begin to unwind last week and finally large caps were unable to hang on. The sell-off started Wednesday and continued Thursday.

    Bonds were the safety ...
  4. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up

    The new quarter brought a new character to the market. Coming off a rise in interest rates from the Fed, economic data poured in suggesting a continuation of strong growth in the U.S. economy which gives the Federal Reserve more reason to keep raising rates. This triggered selling in small caps, large caps, and bonds. The bears took control of small caps (S-fund) right away for the first week of the 3rd quarter while large caps (C-fund) benefited from the rotation. Next to go was the bonds market ...
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