Welcome to the Dividing Cafe weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio and dividends in your understanding of economic life.

All right, well, welcome to what is the very first ever DC Today podcast.

And for those that have been involved with the Bonson Group for some time

and know the history of it or for anyone who might actually care about it, you know that we

did do a podcast, I think pretty much every day throughout the COVID and markets days,

which ran from March through September of 2020. And then when we

switched from COVID and markets to DC Today, we stopped doing that daily podcast. And as was

announced last week, we are now making some changes even around the format of DC today as well.

So those of you who received the written DC today, today, you won't notice any changes.

In fact, it's actually quite a long and robust one because I had so much time working by myself

in New York City this weekend. But starting Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, meaning immediately

tomorrow and so forth and so on, we will have a written DC today that goes out,

but it's really just going to be a market synopsis

and a Ask David each day.

The podcast and also those watching on video will be where the kind of more elaborated daily update comes from.

So that's our routine going forward.

Let me kind of get into some of the things I wanted to about today.

It's been a very, frankly, bizarre and fascinating market recovery.

We're now up pretty much 2,000 points from where we had bottomed out a couple weeks ago,

and that itself was down about 2,500 points.

So the market has both had a huge recovery since June, lost a lot of that recovery, and now

gained a lot of that loss back.

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