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Hello and welcome to the Monday edition of Dividend Cafe.

We are going to very quickly go around the horn, just kind of walk through. It was a really boring day

in markets, and I am saying that with so much joy. It was an eventful week last week. A lot of

upside excitement in a lot of the defensive sectors, downside in a couple sub-sectors of

the market, primarily in the software industry, but overall,

a wild ride in markets, mostly to the downside last week, and then a huge update Friday,

and then today, kind of a boring day in the aftermath of all that. Again, I say that is a good thing.

Let me first say that anyone who missed the Friday

at Dividing Cafe, I would encourage you to check that out, whether your preferred medium is the

written commentary at Dividendant Cafe.com or a video like this, podcast like this, where I did do a

deeper dive into the new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh,

evaluating why it is I liked him as Fed Chair and what it is, I believe,

the opportunity in front of him to be as it pertains to monetary policy.

Check out Friday's Dividendon Cafe when you get a chance.

The market today, Monday, the day after Super Bowl Sunday, opened down about 100 points and very

quickly, within the first half hour, got back to the even mark, then went a bit higher

from there, and then really across all three indices by about an hour or so into the market

open, just sort of stayed near that level for the rest of the day.

So it ended up with the Dow being very close to flat.

It was up 20 points.

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