TommyIV's TSP Talk Blog

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The new week started with selling and ended with more selling. The previous Friday's sell-off continued into Monday to start stock indices in negative territory for the week. The bulls did fight back mid-week providing mostly directionless choppy action but a strong move higher on Thursday erased most of the C-funds weekly losses and pushed the S-fund into positive territory for the week. This was a result of wishful speculation that Jerome Powell would be accommodative ...

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Investors took the opportunity for some profit taking ending a four week stretch of gains for U.S. stocks. The bulls and bears fought for direction all week which flattened out the charts enough to lean the investor into a risk off mentality. It didn't help that volume was low so a few bad headlines was all that was needed to drive down the whole market. It was the small cap stocks that were punished the most. The S-fund lagged the TSP funds with a 3.20% loss for the week but ...

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The July trajectory officially continues into August, but some technical resistance should still make you question its longevity. It wasn't a great start to the week, but the Consumer Price Index sparked new life in buyers. The CPI report was slightly less than the previous months suggesting inflation has potentially peaked. It wasn't a spectacular pull back in price growth, but buyers connected it with the Federal Reserve pulling back on their aggressive rate hikes. Of course, some ...

The S&P 500 was down four of the five days this week yet that one day of gains was enough to carry the C-fund into positive territory (+0.38%) for the week. Small caps had a different week, the DWCPF was up four of the five days this week. The index was able to stay in positive territory on days large caps saw losses. The boosted the S-fund to outperform the TSP funds with a 2.38% gain for the week. Yet another different performance was the I-fund that jumped between gains and losses to ultimately ...