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

and dividends in your understanding of economic life.

Well, hello and welcome to a very special dividend cafe on this beautiful Monday from New York

City.

And for a lot of people, a beautiful day in the market as the

Dow was up, well over a thousand points, NASDAQ up, over 4%. The S&P up, 3 and a quarter percent.

And there are four major stories that happened basically overnight into the morning. And so I want to

spend our time talking about the market, which is largely related to one in particular of those

stories. There could be overlap to some degree with maybe two of them. But it's one of those

days where I just want to start off by saying how difficult it is to do the Dividend Cafe on a

day like today because I believe that any one of these four things could have warranted its own dividend cafe.

And if there was not four stories, if you just had an up thousand point day in the Dow,

that's a pretty big story.

As far as a market commentary goes, having an extraordinary day like that in the market,

that alone would warrant a little additional market commentary goes, having an extraordinary day like that in the market, that alone would warrant a little additional market commentary, obviously. And so what I say difficult, what I want

you to understand is that, first of all, it is true. I love using weekend time doing a lot of

reading and research. And a lot of times

I have begun writing things for the Monday Dividy Cafe Saturday morning throughout Saturday,

Sunday. And then Monday, there's a lot more to do as you get into the actual Monday itself.

But this particular weekend, almost everything I would have done by Sunday night, became somewhat obsolete.

Now, I knew that there was a good chance of getting some news out of the China-US trade talks in Geneva, Switzerland,

with Secretary Besant and the Chinese Vice Premier.

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