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Hello and welcome to the Monday edition of Dividendon Cafe where we go around the horn and all of our normal topics.

And today it is really a pretty normal dividend campaign. where we go around the horn at all of our normal topics.

And today it is really a pretty normal Dividing Cafe Monday edition.

There's a few fun things to talk about,

but we're just going to go short and sweet through all the major bullets,

let you get on with your evening.

I'll quickly say, though, that the Friday Dividendon Cafe, if you missed it, don't, whether you're a podcast video or a reader, go check it out. There is an important

discussion about the reality of an independent Fed, what to expect with monetary policy,

what to expect of the new Federal Reserve regime as it pertains

to independence. I think you'll find it historically and, shall we say, economically interesting,

Dividing Cafe from Friday. There are a couple links that we've put up in today's Dividend

Cafe. If you're interested, my appearance on Maria Bartramo's Wall Street show over the weekend that we recorded from the Reagan Library on Friday, as well as a brief hit I did on Varney Fox Business this morning.

So markets today opened down 150 points.

Keep in mind, it's the first trading day of June. The S&P 500 was up a little over 5% in the month of May.

It is now up 10.7% on the year.

Keep in mind it was almost down 10% at its low level.

So you're talking about a 20% recovery from the low very

quickly and another 5% added on in May from the big rally in April. Today's action, though, the Dow

down 150 to start, Hamden-Hod for the first kind of half of the trading day, then recovered

into the second half of the trading day. You had a Dow up 46 points, which is only nine basis

points, but nevertheless off of its negative territory. You have the S&P up a quarter of percent,

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