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 Monday edition of DC today. I am actually sitting in my office in New York City. And, you know,

our studio here in the office is normally where I record. But we're kind of doing it here at my desk

for other reasons. I'll spare you the details on today. And I'm doing something I think I've done

once, maybe twice ever before. I'm recording a few minutes before the market is closed. And I hate doing that

because I know one of these days I'm going to say something and then in the 10 minutes in

between me saying it and the market closing, it'll become obsolete. But we have to take our chances

today because I can't record right after the market because, candidly, they switched my hit time going on the

Kudlow show at Fox Business and so it's sort of screwing up our afternoon rhythm.

So I'm recording for you now.

There's a very long and robust Monday edition of the DC Today that I really encourage you

to read and it will have all the updated final

numbers in it after the close by the time you're getting this. But for now, I'll just kind of

give you the general direction of where we are. As is often our case on Mondays, we like to go

through a number of other categories, covering public policy, covering the Fed, covering the

general news cycle, economic developments, et cetera, a little longer form version than what we do

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

And so there's a lot there this week.

The market itself, first of all, the biggest story is barring what could be

a 190 point drop in the next 10 minutes. The Dow is up 11 market days in a row. You can look up

yourself when the last time that happened is, but an incredibly rare feat. Some of them were big

days up. Some of them were very small, but

...