Welcome to the Dividing Cafe weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio and

dividends in your understanding of economic life.

Well, hello, everyone.

It's been a little while since we have done this environment, and I prefer to only kind of do it

in special situations now. We got away from that every single

two-week deal that became a tradition in the aftermath of the formerly known as COVID moment.

But there's been a lot of market volatility the last few days. And as I saw futures this morning,

I reached out to my handy communications team, Scott Gam and our

studio managers and department directors, Brian and Glenn. And we said, hey, let's put something

together today to get on video and audio for you guys about the specific moment we're in.

And for those of you who have watched me and Scott do this over the last couple of years,

you know how we kind of like to riff around the current moment.

Obviously, we do have some questions and things that have come in that we'll address.

But I'm going to let Scott drive and I'll be here to answer questions about where we are

in the midst of current market volatility.

So with that, let me turn it over to our

still trusted partner in crime, Scott Gam, who, Scott's been a little while since we've been

able to do this. So good to be back in front of you. And let's have our conversation, shall we?

Yeah, David, let's do it. Great to be with you, as always.

And certainly the past couple of days have been particularly volatile.

You talk about, in some of your writings, a repricing in markets given the recent rise in interest rates.

What else should we know about that repricing? What are the

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