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  1. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up



    Another volatile week leaves stocks with weekly gains but not without pain. The C and S-fund reached their highs on Tuesday; the S-fund led the way with a 3.12% gain in the first two days. Those first couple days of strength led into the FOMC rate decision Wednesday afternoon. The market was higher intraday when the Fed announce a 25bps rate hike, this was what was expected with the Fed trying to balance their battle against inflation and the liquidity concerns across the banking
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  2. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up

    The unknown, the overreactions, the pessimism followed by optimism followed by more pessimism; this all added up to a volatile week that would have certainly been an emotional experience for anyone holding stocks through the week. Coming into Monday it seemed like we were bound for mayhem. A second bank had failed over the weekend, being the third largest bank to fail in the U.S. after the second largest bank failed just days before. But swift action taken by a number of regulators that included ...
  3. TSP Talk: No surprises with the CPI, the market approves.


    Stocks reclaimed some of the recent losses Tuesday, but it wasn't smooth sailing. Prices were up right out the gate in reaction to the February Consumer Price Index coming in on target, meaning it was the lowest year-over-year increase since September of 2021. Prices rose further; within a couple hours the indices had gains of over 2%. But the excitement halted, the gains were being given back quickly in the second half of the day as if the early eager buyers were just as eager to lock in
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  4. TSP Talk: Fed contains bank run, but now faces CPI.


    Yesterday was our third day of bank drama and, despite a second bank failing over the weekend, it was the calmest action of the three. Stock indices opened down sharply, quickly slipped lower, then bounced back above the opening prices within the first hour of trading. Once the dust settled, index prices danced between a trading range contained by confusion and the unknown. Eventually the indices closed at the low end of that trading channel, but for the S&P 500 that meant only a 0.16% loss.
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  5. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up


    The S-fund lost nearly 6% in the final two days of the week, but it wasn't the February Jobs Report that ran off investors. Coming into the week we had two major events on our minds: 1) Jerome Powell would be testifying on Capitol Hill about the path the Federal Reserve was on to lower inflation, and 2) the February Jobs report that would be a follow-up of the January Report that surprised everyone, worried investors that the Fed would need to raise rates more aggressively, and started the
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    Updated 03-13-2023 at 08:55 AM by TommyIV

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