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  1. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up



    The TSP stock funds prices recovered lost ground in the second week of the new year. Only the C-fund was able to lift into positive territory for the year. The C-fund was helped by the reawakening of the large tech companies that carry more weight in the S&P 500 index. Microsoft carries the most percentage of S&P 500's of any other company that makes up the index. This week Microsoft gained 5.63% and the tech sector as a whole was up 4.41% for the week clearly outperforming the other
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    Updated 01-14-2024 at 02:11 PM by TommyIV

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  2. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up


    Stocks began the new year with a slump. The enthusiasm that drove prices higher through November and December left investors in the first week of 2024. As a TSP investor, you must question if this change in character is a warning of more correction to come, or a buying opportunity before earnings season reignites that enthusiasm.

    Twice at the end of this week, Thursday and Friday, TSP investors making IFT decisions were fooled by the market prices at the TSP trading deadline.
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    Updated 01-06-2024 at 02:14 PM by TommyIV

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  3. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up - The Final Stretch of 2023



    It was a good year to pad your TSP retirement savings. That was especially true over the last couple months of 2023. The 721 active non-premium members of the TSP Talk AutoTracker finished 2023 with a combined average return of 15.5%. That is a respectable return yet an underperformance against any of the three TSP stock funds (C,S,I). Arguably, buy and hold was the strategy this year, but this would not have felt to be the case during the end of October.

    On October
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  4. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up



    This week, the C-fund (S&P 500) produced its first new high since January 3rd, 2022. In the meantime, the C-fund took
    a turbulent 24% loss up to October 12th, 2022 followed by a 34% bounce back to its price today.



    The latest Consumer Price Index and the Federal Reserve helped to push prices to new highs. The CPI showed investors inflation in maintaining its current lower levels. The CPI's ...
  5. TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up


    Price action hit a lull to start the week. Stock indices struggled with losses while buyers and sellers fought for control over the first three days of the week. Eventually, the market was overtaken by buyers who chased prices higher into the weekend to put all three TSP stock funds into positive for the week.

    Market timers have been talking about an entry point before the Christmas Holiday where they expect prices to soar into the end of the year. Was the early action this
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