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Similar to the first two weeks of August, the market bounced back after dipping the first week. Now the S&P 500 (C-fund) and DWCPF (S-fund) are within reach of their summer highs with a rate cut coming on Wednesday. Now investors face a highly anticipated rate cut one Wednesday, one that has toyed with the market for months.

Neither the C-fund nor S-fund took a loss in any single day return last week. They both accumulated gains of over 4% for the week with the S-fund’s ...

Stocks began to sell off immediately to start the new month, prompting less tolerant investors to quickly move to the G and F funds to protect their August gains. For many, the potential cost of missing further gains was worth the security of stepping out of the market for a moment.

However, one of TSP Talk AutoTracker’s top investors for 2024 took a different approach, buying into the early weakness. Top 5 member "Cash_Money" moved 50% out of their cash reserves (100% ...

The stock market ended August on a positive note rewarding investors who stuck with stocks through the end of the week. A late surge in the second half of Friday's intraday action helped to lift the C and I-fund into positive territory for the week and erase most of the S-fund’s weekly losses.




Here are the weekly, monthly, and annual TSP fund returns for the week ending August 30: ...

Market swings and divergent returns tested TSP investors this week. The market changed direction every day leading up to the highly anticipated speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. His speech ultimately led to the week’s best day of returns across the TSP funds, but it was the S-fund investors who took home most the gains.

The TSP Talk community mostly took profits on the peaks or swapped their C-fund for some S-fund.

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A string of positive economic data cleared a path for the bulls this week. The C-fund gave its investors the best TSP return of the week with a gain of 3.99%, its best week of the year. This rally was a hefty rebound from a sell-off that plagued the first days of August. Despite these exciting returns, the contrasting swings in the market should have investors wary of more turbulence ahead.

Here are the weekly, monthly, and annual TSP fund returns for the week ending August ...