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

in your understanding of economic life. Well, thank you. As always, Erica, and thank you to our

production team and everyone who helped make this possible. And of course, thank you,

Scott, for joining us. I know that we've had a handful of questions that have come in that

you are in possession of. And there's certainly plenty happening in the world right now.

This is actually quite an interesting week where we have the Fed, we have the political environment, we have the G20,

and we have earnings season, and even some various elections in different parts of the country

all happening at once. So I'm going to turn it over to you, Scott. I'll just reiterate what

Erica said for those

listening and viewing that if they email in real time questions at thebonson Group.com,

then the team back office will get the questions and forward them on to Scott so that we can

hopefully cover your questions live here on our discussion. But with that said,

Scott, the microphone is yours. Well, thank you, David. Great to be with you as always.

And an interesting week for sure, an interesting day as well with the Dow hitting 36,000 for the first time

ever, albeit for a few seconds coming just about a year

after we hit 30,000, which was November of last year. David, what do you think is driving the

action we've been seeing over the past couple weeks, the rebound in the market from some of the

declines we saw in September? Is it earnings just broader optimism about next year? What's your reaction so

far? Yeah, in terms of the specific things moving markets, it continues to be a combination of

things with a couple being more significant than others. And I think that the continued positivity

out of earnings results combined with the liquidity

environment that is always so helpful to boosting valuations in risk assets.

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