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 the DC Today. I feel like things are kind of normal now. It's an actual Monday.

We have the longer form DC today.

It's a full market week, you know, in terms of the calendar.

And so through all the sort of abnormalities of the holiday season, it does feel like things are normalizing a bit.

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But beyond that brief commercial, it was a weird day of markets.

And, you know, we've only been open for five market days so far this year.

And we've had quite a few weird ones.

The futures last night, when they opened as were in the midst of all, you know, football

and everything like that, they were up a bit, which was somewhat surprising after the massive rally day over 700 points from Friday.

And then futures actually continued to go up into the evening.

And I believe by the time I went to bed last night, they were up, what was it, 82 points, 82 points when I went to bed.

And this morning up very early, they were up another hundred.

So then the market opened up 150 or so and got up as much as 300 points.

It closed down 112.

But most of that was happening throughout the last, like let's call it, two-thirds of the day.

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