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Hello and welcome to the Monday Dividend Cafe.

We are back in it going around the horn, all of our normal topics.

And there's a fair amount of fun things today, but it's not an overly abundant a listen today. So you may be in for a treat. I may get

you out of here a little early, but nevertheless, some fun things to share. I'll first say that

if you miss the Dividendon Cafe on Friday, it was the first, and I would like to think the last

time that I've done a deep dive treatment into our approach to Bitcoin and the crypto world,

the Dividing Cafe on Friday, if you want either the video or the podcast or the written commentary

at Dividendoncafe.com. Feel free to check it out for my comprehensive

treatment as to why the Bonson Group doesn't own and never will Bitcoin. Today here in the

dividend cafe, we are focusing on the normal categories that we like to cover, which is the

markets, the Fed, the housing, public policy, economic data,

and so forth and so on. Let me start with today in the market. Dow was down a little bit over 200 points.

It kind of just went down slowly, but surely throughout the day. There were a few spurts and

and starts and ups and downs on the way, but

nothing too dramatic. The Dow closed down 0.45%. The S&P closed down 0.35%. Nasdaq down 0.14. There was only

one sector in positive territory, and that was technology, which was up 93 basis points.

But then the worst performing sector of the day was its cousin communication services,

which is actually an offshoot of a sector from technology, and it was down 1.77%.

So when you see something like that with communication down quite a bit in technology up a

decent amount and that big disparity between the two, it's usually because there's a couple

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