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, welcome to the special Monday edition of the D.C. today. I am recording from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where it is

actually already almost dark outside, and it's only 5 o'clock Eastern, and it's quite cold. But

nevertheless, beautiful city, had some meetings and speaking and recordings and things today.

And then I'm in a couple other Michigan cities tomorrow giving speeches.

And I'll be back in New York City on Wednesday.

So in the meantime, I'm here at the hotel recording.

And tomorrow, Brian Sightel will bring you D.C. today as I'm out and about.

You know, the market rallied again today, and I have a few things I want to talk about with the market.

We'll just kind of cover all the basics.

Futures were up about 40 points last night, and then I kind of quit looking at the market long enough to watch Dallas beat up Philadelphia.

I thought they were going to win by 40 points and, you know, still a really good looking

game for the Cowboys.

Futures didn't hold that 40 point lead.

It kind of went flat.

Market looked about flattish this morning, very early pre-market.

And then it opened up about 75 points.

And it did zig and zag from there.

It kind of went lower, went higher.

But by, you know, an hour or two into the day, it was kind of up.

And then it ended up closing at a high and was up

over 150 points on the day nearly half of a percentage point um an interesting tidbit about last week the

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