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Hello, welcome to D.C. Today. I'm Trevor Cummings filling in for David Bonson. He is on a flight to New York. He'll be in

our office in Manhattan doing a lot of TV stuff and other media this week. And even as I say that,

it's kind of fun to think about the expanding footprint of the Bonson Group. Last year we opened offices

in Bend, Oregon, in Nashville, Tennessee. We obviously have

our office in Minnesota, New York, Newport Beach, and perhaps we'll be expanding in the future.

You'll have to wait and hear about that. Markets today ended in a sense of how they kind of were all month.

So you saw the Dow Jones Industrial average go down.71%

NASDAQ, or sorry, S&P 500 was down.3%.

The NASDAQ was actually up on the day.

It was up 0.3%.

When you see that disparity, the interesting question is,

where does the attribution come from? We usually will get the answer by just looking at what was the worst performing sector.

So the worst performing sector today was utilities.

Utilities were down 1.72 percent. There's your answer. There's no utility companies in the NASDAQ,

something very tech-heavy. So you can see that big disconnect between S&P and the NASDAQ or the NASDAQ, something very tech-heavy. So you can see that big disconnect between

S&P and the NASDAQ or the NASDAQ and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The best performing

sector for the day was materials. They were up about 0.45%. The 10-year Treasury, it's interesting

for me because the last few DCD days I filled in for, I kind of was saying, hey, it really loves

this kind of 3.5% area that's been hovering around. Well, today it's at 3.92%. Unchanged for the

day, but a huge spike in yields for the month of February. And when you look at how the stock

market did in the month of February, a lot of it

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