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

Well, hello, and welcome to the DC today. The market has closed here today on Thursday, September 15th.

I am getting ready to run out of my New York

office and head to JFK where I'll be flying back to California late tonight and we'll be back

in the Newport Beach office tomorrow Friday, where you will be receiving a lovely dividend cafe

that I'll be riding on the plane tonight devoted to the energy subject.

So a lot of what I want to say about the energy sector, what's going on in the energy world

for investors, as well as where the lay of the land is for energy, geopolitically, economically,

and so forth. I'm going to be diving into

that in Divida Cafe that you'll receive tomorrow Friday.

As far as the market today, it ended up down.

It was kind of down a bit at the open and then kind of rallied up and then did a lot of zigging

and zagging throughout the day, got back up to a new high,

and then kind of in the last two hours of the day gave some back.

It did get down about $250 at one point and then closed down 173.

So a little off of the lows, Dow down half of a percentage point.

The S&P was down over 1%, largely led by Big Tech dropping quite a bit,

and then NASDAQ along those lines was down over 1.4%. So since the Tuesday sell-life,

you did not get a market recovery per se, and as I've been talking about, the way in which

bond yields are acting is related to this,

the 10 year was at 3.7 BIPs, 3.7 basis points to 3.45 percent. But both the one year and

two year are sitting there just below a 4 percent, 3.8, 3.9 range.

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