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Hello and welcome to today's COVID and markets missive.

We hope you had a wonderful weekend.

Today's missive, as always,

is brought to you by the Dividing Cafe of the Bonson Group. For those who are listening to

COVID and markets each day and have never really understood what in the world dividend cafe

is, or for that matter, who the Bonson Group is, it's never occurred to me that there may be people who are not

Bonson Group clients and familiar with us, you know, Dividy Cafe readers that have stumbled

upon COVID markets and are hearing these other terms and don't know what the world I'm talking

about. So Dividy Cafe is my weekly investment commentary by mine. I mean, I, David Bonson,

chief investment officer, private wealth management firm, the Bonson Group. COVID in markets has

become a daily missive we've done in response to the ad hoc realities in the market for

investors around the coronavirus,-19 health pandemic.

And so hopefully if this is your first time hearing all this, you now have a better understanding

of who all the characters and moving parts are and so forth. And for those of you that, of course,

know all this, I apologize for wasting

this minute of your life. Real quickly, the situation today, as far as markets, first of all,

is kind of odd. We've got a few odd days lately. Dow was up a tad, kind of flattish, but technically a little bit up. But then the S&P was up

rather nicely, and the Dow up quite big, particularly after last week's travails, the NASDAQ really

struggled last week. So he had flat Dow, up S&P, really up NASDAQ, just strange divergence

amongst the market indices. But in what I'm going to go through here

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