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

Hello and welcome to this week's Dividend Cafe podcast and those of you watching on video as well.

My name is David Bonson.

I'm the chief investment officer at the Bonson Group.

And very grateful to once again be presenting you our weekly Dividing Cafe Market Commentary.

I am recording before the market is opened on Friday.

And it has been an interesting week in the markets.

It's three weeks in a row now.

Coming into today here on Friday, the market is up about 700 points on the week.

The futures are pointing up about 100 points, but who knows what the market will do today, Friday.

But this would be three consecutive weeks in a row of the market being up, and that's, you know, that happens all the time.

We almost got five days in a row of the market up.

That doesn't happen very much, but the market was not up yesterday, Thursday.

But the thing that is certainly noteworthy about the market this week and the last two weeks

before that is that you have a three-week run, a positive returns in the Dow while you're having the three-week

surge or outbreak or case growth, you know, whatever nouns and adjectives you like to capture

what's going on at varying degrees of, you know, reaction. And It's heightened in Florida and Texas.

It had been heightened in Arizona.

It started to back down there a little.

We use our COVID-in markets daily writing and podcasts to try to provide more holistic perspective around all of that.

I won't dive into it all now, but I do think the market's response is indicative and you

can say symbolic, but I also think substantive to where we stand with that. We are not out of the woods in the

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