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Well, hello and welcome to another DC today, the Thursday edition. We're going to bring DC today to a close for the week

and then come to you with a dividend cafe tomorrow, which I'm pretty excited about. The market

did some weird stuff today. So first of all, let me just tell you, February closed with the Dow

down 4%, the S&P down 2.5%.

And the bond market was down 2.7% for the month.

So basically, every index that we track more or less was down in February.

And every index that we track is still up on the year, but much less so.

So January was up, more than February was down, whether you're talking about bonds,

S&P, NASDAQ, Dow, emerging markets, all these different things.

And yet gave up a significant part of the

return in the month of February, as you probably know. Now, today, the S&P was down a fair amount.

NASDAQ was down a fair amount. The Dow was not, but it was at least when the market first opened,

as I was sitting on set at Fox News this morning, Fox Business with Stuart Barnage show,

29 of the 30 stocks and the Dow were down, but the Dow was up because one stock, a company called

Salesforce, had announced earnings and issues

yesterday that caused it to be up so much that it was making the whole Dow go up. So it was kind of a

weird deal. And then even in the S&P and NASDAQ, which have a very large weighting of Tesla,

which was down a lot, it was sort of

throwing it off. So it's very rare you see a day like that where one particular company is

distorting a whole index, but it's even more rare that it's happening twice with different companies

and in different directions, one to the upside, one to the

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