Welcome to the Dividend Cafe weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio and dividends in your understanding of economic life.

Thanks as always, Erica, and thank you, Scott, and thank you all for joining us today.

We're going to keep the call nice and tight today, probably aim for

about 30 to 40 minutes at the most, but certainly as questions come up, during the call,

send them to questions at thebonson Group.com, and we will, in all likelihood, be able to get to it

here on the call. With that said, I'm going to turn it over to you, Scott, and let's dive in.

We have one of our very typical biweekly Monday up market days today. Yeah, David, thank you very much on the first trading session of May coming off of a really great month for stocks.

Broader markets up about 5% for the month of April. I'm just kind of curious where you think we stand right now in terms

of the broader markets. How are you feeling about things right now? Well, I think it is interesting

as we come into the month of May, and this is including today's market move.

My screen is, of course, real time.

And today the Dow is up a lot more than the S&P and the NASDAQ is actually down today.

But the S&P and the Dow, as I'm looking at my screen right now, the Dow's up 11.69% and the S&P is up 11.66%

a couple of basis points apart from being right on top of each other with a very different path

in terms of how they have gotten there.

And so I think that's really kind of interesting.

The NASDAQ is much less than that by about 4 or 5% less.

But at one point, the NASDAQ was forwarding the negative territory from, and it's still negative from its mid-February highs.

So we have a lot, and I think this is healthy, Scott.

We have a lot of dispersion of results within the market.

The market is not all acting monolithically.

It is directionally, meaning everything's pretty much doing well.

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