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. You know the Monday edition, the special, old school, long form. There's a lot in it today. I'm going to try to go through as much as I can. A lot of market action today is not covered because it was an extremely boring day in the markets. In fact, all three indices, Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ ended up basically flat on the day.

How flat were they so flat that I didn't even bother to put the numbers in the DC today?

I just put that they were flat because they were all literally within a couple basis points.

The Dow had opened down a bit, it went up a little, and then just kind of leveled out right around where it opened on the day.

And similar action with S&P and NASDAQ. Now within that, the energy sector was up about 0.7%.

Consumer discretionary was down about 1%. But again, as far as the whole indexes go, not a lot to say in the

markets today. If you go to the DC today, by the way, in the kind of opening paragraphs, there is

a regurgitation of the Dividend Cafe from Friday, just the links to the written Dividendon Cafe, the video, the podcast.

And then because I was on Varney and Fox Business this morning before the market opened and I was on CNBC after the market closed, we have links to those appearances.

There's actually even a little quote a link to the Wall Street Journal had a big article yesterday in markets and I was quoted in the article.

It's just one quote, but we've provided that link for your reading pleasure.

So with a flat market behind us, a couple other little market nuggets and then we'll get into some news stories, public policy, the Fed, all the good things.

53% of tech companies, I mean, basically just right around half and actually only 40% of semiconductor companies, less than half, are above their 200-day moving average.

So you have definitely seen a weakening in the breadth of the technology sector, which had really been

carrying a lot of the S&P and obviously the NASDAQ most of the year.

We'll see where that goes because the top side, the top positions in the indexes, the largest size, have actually hung in there, but the internal

weakness up and down has definitely intensified.

The bond market, not a lot to report today, the 10-year closed down, 1.7 basis points in

its yield, down to 4.30, so bonds were up a little today. And then oil prices were up

$1,000, closing it basically just shy of $91 a barrel. So a lot of strengthening in energy.

The auto workers strike is the big story that I think is most market

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