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Well, hello and welcome to the Tuesday, D.C. today. It was a odd day. It was a good day in markets, I suppose. I mean,

stocks were up. It was, let's see, futures were down 150 pretty much all morning. And then we

opened up 50 points. And so without really a particular news catalyst or anything. So that was probably your

first clue that was going to be an odd day. And then if you look in the DC Today.com, I have the

chart of the daily market action. We kind of, you know, moved around a bit and then just sort of

rallied throughout the second half of the day, but not a huge rally, but modest.

The final numbers ended up being, I know the Dow was up 100 and 86 points, which was, you know,

half a percentage point.

The S&P was up point seven and NASDAQ was up exactly 1%.

And this was a day which the bond market, the yield was up 10 basis points.

So you had bonds come back a tiny bit there. But still, again, those yields hanging in there in the

mid-3s, well off of the mid-fours level that we had seen at the 10-year, further out on the

curve.

Communication services was the leading sector, which explains the NASDAQ having a good day.

The communications were up at 1.29%. And then right behind it was consumer discretionary, 1.26%.

So you've had a little leadership here from some of the laggards. Some of the names

that are much more beaten up, have been doing pretty well. And then technically we didn't have

every 11 out of 11 sectors up, only 10 out of 11. So it's still a pretty broad rally,

but consumer staples were down 0.16%. Oil was flat on the day.

In terms of a few kind of substantive things I want to go through, used car prices.

The Mannheim used car index came out.

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