Welcome to the DC Today, your daily market synopsis of the Dividing Cafe, brought to you every Monday through Thursday to bring you up-to-date information and perspective on financial markets.

Well, hello and welcome to this Monday edition of the DC Today, whereby I'm going to go around the horn talking to you about the

Fed, the market, the economy, public policy, and all the things.

I'm doing this purposely before I get started because I want to give those of you listening

or watching heads up on some plans we have. And I want to solicit your feedback.

We feel really good about some adjustments we're making have gone through a lot of deliberation

and contemplation, but as a means of kind of adding to and improving, optimizing the way in which

we serve our clients with thought leadership

and content and the mediums in which we deliver this, we have become convinced that we want

to consolidate what we're doing under the Dividend Cafe.

That having the D.C. today and Dividend dividend cafe has created more confusion, we think

it would be easier for us to provide a daily market recap at the dividend cafe. And to that

end, we're kind of redoing the dividend cafe page where we are going to be adding some new things.

Not only will we have a daily market recap,

we're going to add to that a Friday edition.

So we'll have the daily, and as you know,

when I say market recap,

it doesn't just mean what the Dow did,

but oil and bond yields and economic data.

So we'll include those kind of daily numerical summaries of things, and we'll do it each day

on the homepage at Dividendincafe.com. And we're going to continue to do what I've been doing

every Friday since 2008, my weekly commentary. And then every Monday, I'll still be doing, much like what I'm doing today, the sort of summary

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