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Well, welcome to the very special D.C. Today. Why is it special? Because it's Monday. Monday means long form written. And there is a lot of

market stuff in the DC Today.com today. Um, brutal week in markets last week and brutal

couple of weeks before that. And then now a big rally day today, um, but not, you know, big enough to

make up for what's happened previously.

But I think there's some points we want to make about what has happened in markets today and

last week and where we are.

So most of what I'm going to talk about today is just market oriented.

There will be a little Fed, a little policy, and some of the economic data.

But let's just jump right into it.

As far as today's clothes, just kind of giving you today's stuff first and then going deeper,

the most important thing I'd say, look, the futures were all over the place last night.

So this wasn't a rally that started right when the market closed Friday.

Markets were bound to close in utter violence.

We every day last week at the end of the day were selling off.

They did it again going into the close, month end, quarter end. That was just sort of baked in the cards.

There's a lot of different reasons why that has been happening and particularly happened Friday.

But it wasn't like immediately the postmarket action was pointing up. And even last night's futures

opened flat. They went down. They came back up, but not a lot. There was a lot of

volatility overnight. I was watching the futures heavily Sunday night and very early Monday morning.

But then they caught a little bit of a bid, but I mean 150, 200 points. So, you know, the market

closed today up 150 or 200. It really, in the aftermath of last week and that Friday going into

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