TommyIV's TSP Talk Blog

It was a relatively un-lively week for stock in a year of great proportions. Large caps only saw gains two of the five days this week, but Monday's gains were enough to keep them in positive territory. Small caps did not have the same benefit and Friday's loss pushed into negative territory for the week.

This week wrapped up 2021's market and it was quite a year. Below I'll give a chart of each fund's respective action this year. The C-fund outperformed by more than double the S and ...

What seemed to be another gloomy week for stocks after more than 1% losses on Monday turned into three straight days of gains leading up to the Christmas holiday. In those three days the C-fund gained 3.48% and reached its 68th record high of 2021. That was overshadowed by the S-funds 4.73% gain in those same three days which erased the S-fund's losses it had acquired in December. The rebound in action is building confidence in investors that the typical post-Christmas Santa Claus rally will take ...

This week was centered around the Federal Reserve and their FOMC meeting. The Fed has finally acknowledged inflation as the greatest threat to the economy that is not going to fix itself. Leading up to this meeting members, including Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, suggested the Fed would shift its plans and speed up its tapering process to make room for more rate hikes next year if necessary. Stocks sold off in the days leading up to the press conference where the FOMC would come public with decisions ...

Stocks got a boost early in the week setting up what became the best weekly gains for the S&P 500 since early February. Fears of the covid variant Omicron's potential sparked selling early in the month and those fears subsided this week with data suggesting the strain is less damaging as originally thought. The large cap index stabilized after Tuesday's gains and eventually ended the week at new all-time highs for the C-fund. The small cap index gave up some the early gains as it was down the last ...

Stocks were up to start the week but the general downward trend eventually pushed the TSP stock funds into negative territory for the week. It was the second week of losses for the C-fund and the fourth straight week of losses for the S-fund. The S-fund has taken most the damage without the large cap names to hedge against the broad sell-off across small cap businesses. The S-fund is down more than 11% since producing its last high on November 8th. A 10% loss in an index is considered a correction ...