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 Tuesday edition of the DC Today. I am very happy to be with you. It's going to be kind of a short one today.

Not a whole lot of major things to go through, but I want to hit the high points. It was another

rally day in the market. For those of you, by the way, watching on the video, I am recording

in my office in New York City instead of the studio, just simply because we're dealing with a few

technical things. And so I am sitting at my desk. I have all of the market action right in front

of me. And these rally days are just quite interesting because at this point, you do start to kind of

wonder who some of the buyers are at this level.

But the market opened pretty flatish, was up a little bit, and then it just kind of worked

its way higher throughout the morning and then kind of stayed flat for most of the second

half of the trading day.

And then it closed at a high on the day.

The Dow up 252 points, which was 0.68%.

And that also represented a new all-time high for the Dow.

So the Dow closing at 37,558 points, which is just rather remarkable. By the way, the S&P and NASDAQ are not to an all-time high,

but are not that far away themselves. So getting closer every day. The S&P was up 59 basis

points. The NASDAQ up 66 basis points. We've had a couple of

those days lately. They don't happen a lot. We had one last week where all three of the market

indices were up in almost perfect tandem with one another. They are so compositionally different

from one another that it's very rare and it's rare for good reason the methodology

how they're computed and what it is that is being computed are all very different so when they

really land on what is almost the same place on a day it just speaks to the kind of broad market

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