Welcome to the Dividing Cafe weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio and dividends in your understanding of economic life.

Welcome to the Bonson Group's national video call, current market outlook around COVID-19, August 10th, 2020.

Your host for today's call is David Bonson, the Bonson Group's founder, managing partner, and

Chief Investment Officer, and Scott Gamm of Strategy Voice Communications.

For this call, all participants will be in a listen-only mode.

Later, we will conduct a question and answer session.

Please send your questions for that Q&A session to COVID at the Bonson Group.com.

I will now turn the call over to your hosts.

Gentlemen, you may begin.

Thank you, Erica, as always, and thank you to all of us, to all of you who have joined us today.

As you can probably tell, I'm back in the Newport Beach offices here at a Bonson Group

worldwide headquarters and enjoying lovely Newport Beach summer weather and being, of course,

back with the great team that is the Bonson Group.

And we're very privileged once again to have Scott Gingham. being, of course, back with the great team that is the Bonson Group.

And we're very privileged, once again, to have Scott Gam on with us.

Scott, I'm considering today the 10th call that we've done, although you have been, this would be your 8th.

But I did one on March 17th, so it doesn't really count as the bi-weekly Monday call

because March 17th was a Tuesday, but it was the first of these sort of COVID-era calls that we

began, and it was done right in the midst of the hysteria and the real peak uncertainty,

of course, in markets, in the economy, but really

in the country. And interestingly, March 17th at that point, as markets have been dropping

thousands upon thousands of points in the few days prior, we hadn't even begun quarantine yet. California only began it,

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