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Well, hello and welcome to the Monday edition of the Dividing Cafe.

I am here at the Bonson Group's office in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee.

Wonderful weekend here in Nashville and a couple days working at this office. And we had a big rally day in markets today.

A little volatility here so far into fourth quarter, some down times and now some uptimes.

And today's up day catalyzed by a few different things,

some optimism around where this flexing and barking with U.S.-China trade is going,

early reports of good sales and news for the new Apple iPhone. I think it is Model 17 and, you know, a few other

sentiment-oriented things. But nevertheless, it put the Dow up 516 points today, which is 1.1%.

The S&P was only a little bit lower than that, up 1.07%. So right in the same range,

and the NASDAQ a tad higher at 1.3%. I do want to direct you if you didn't catch the Friday

Dividendin Cafe to our Friday edition Dividend Cafe about AI and the impact that I expect it to have on the labor

market. Assessing the lay of the land in that space is the topic that comes up all the time,

I think is tremendously important in terms of the macroeconomic picture. And it has been a wonderful

weekend of feedback about that particular Dividing Cafe.

So if you did miss that, I'd love to direct you either to that podcast episode, video,

or the Dividycafe.com article.

A few things I want to say quickly on the investment front, in addition to where the major market

indices went today, all in rally mode, all basically somewhere above 1% on the day.

The 10-year bond yield closed today at 3.98%.

So it's below 4%.

It's been teetering right at that 4% range for a while, and it was down,

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