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Today's Thursday and we are here at the Bonson Group to once again

debrief and download on all the things in today's market action and the COVID health pandemic.

The market was facing the possibility of five consecutive days of an increase, but sure enough,

and probably you could argue kind of expectantly, missed out on that opportunity.

The Dow ended up being down 135 points, so not a big move

at one point though I want to look at this

at one point we were down close to 300 points and so it made

back more than half of that downside in the final one hour of trading.

But again, a small move down after what's been, you know,

obviously a pretty big run here.

And as I've pointed out day by day and written about ad nauseum and so forth,

this is perhaps more noteworthy just because it has

come with an ongoing contrast to what is being presented in the health data.

And indeed, not only where I think there's a lot of exaggeration and sensationalism, but also where

there's just plain, you know, bad news. I mean, all things being equal, I think everybody

would really prefer to see the case is declining, not increasing, and even if the growth

is flatlining, the fact of the matter is that you have, you know, plenty of pockets in the country where

hospitals are more crowded than others and I see units may be. And I think that you can

definitely look at it if you're being kind of scientific and statistical and analytical,

which is really my job by providing analysis is obviously to be analytical and be encouraged that the

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