On Vacation, Back in November
October 8, 2007 by TFBI’m leaving for my vacation tonight. I will be back in November. Because I have no access to the Internet while I’m on vacation, this blog will not be updated again until I come back. I hope the flood of posts in the last two weeks made up for my absence.
I’m going to miss some exciting events while I’m gone. Or maybe not that exciting compared to my vacation. There will be two TIPS auctions in October. A 10-year issue will be announced on October 9, auctioned on October 11. A 5-year issue will be announced on October 18, auctioned on October 23. The current yield is 2.2-2.3%. Personally I won’t buy again until the yield goes above 2.5%. If you are interested in buying though, you can monitor the yields with my TIPS yield curve RSS feed and estimate the final price with my TIPS pricing spreadsheet.
FOMC meets again at the end of October. The current options market implied probabilities are 55% for no change, 40% for a 1/4-point cut, and 5% for all other scenarios. It probably will go unchanged then.
Companies report their Q3 earnings in October. The stock market will react to them. In case there is a selloff while I’m gone, I’ve set up some limit buy orders.
For new readers, I’d also like to highlight a few old posts. Most people probably haven’t read these because I had very few readers when I posted them.
Open Enrollment - A 4-part series on my choices during annual employee benefits open enrollment. My company did it in November last year. Some companies have theirs in October.
Selling a Used Car - A 4-part series about my experience when I sold my used car last year.
Finance Charge in Insurance Payment Plans - A few dollars of “processing fee” is actually 19% APR finance charge.
Perhaps when I come back I will have some good stories to tell about how finances are done in a developing country.
Related Posts:- Back From Vacation, Catching Up
- Notes From an Overseas Vacation
- I-Bonds Fixed Rate Pre-Guess for November 2007
