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

and dividends in your understanding of economic life.

Well, hello and welcome to the first ever Dividendon Cafe being recorded from Bend, Oregon.

I am up in our office here in Bend, Oregon. We opened a Pacific Northwest location

two years ago. I've spent the last three days here with Jolene. We've had a wonderful time with many

clients doing dinner events, two different nights, and really enjoyed our time with John and Jill and Drew

and Nick, the two advisors and financial planning professional and operations professional

that make up the team here at our Pacific Northwest location. Bend is a beautiful city,

and I very much enjoyed the time in the clean mountain air and we'll be

heading out here shortly but not before bringing you the dividend cafe. I began reading a handful of

different research papers I was sort of behind on very early this morning and became quickly inspired with a couple

of different topics I wanted to go around the horn with today. The lay of the land in markets

is fascinating, but it allowed me to kind of tee up a theme, which is that the markets were at

39,800 in the Dow, which was an all-time high on the last day of March

at the closing of March, all-time high, 39-800. And I'm sitting and recording in the middle

of the market day on Friday. We're down a few hundred points. But since that closing high, in what is almost

10 trading days, nine and a half trading days, the market has gone down about 1,600 points.

Well, the interesting thing is that from March 15th to March 30th, or I think it was March 29th was the final day of the month,

markets were up, maybe something over at 1,000 points.

So two weeks, the markets moved up that quickly.

Two weeks the markets moved down that quickly,

and you end up just kind of in a round trip more or less back to where

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