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, D.C. Today, it is Election Day. I wish I was providing election day results,

but we are not yet there. Middle of the day, Tuesday, and I'm going to just give you a quick

market summary. The reason I say quick is because I'm running to jump on a plane. I'll be

flying out to Nashville, landing in Nashville very late tonight. My whole team follows me tomorrow Wednesday.

When I say my whole team, I mean all 50 employees of the Bonson group from around the country.

And then we will starting Wednesday night going Thursday and Friday be at our Nashville

headquarters and doing our annual team offsite, which is why there will be a election day

written DC today tomorrow in the morning, summarizing what we can summarize from the results

of election night, but there will not be a post-market DC today on Wednesday or Thursday because of our whole team and the resources

needed to do DC today, me being one of those resources, but the other folks involved behind

the scenes, all of us being otherwise engaged. There will be a dividend cafe, though, on Friday.

What is the markets thought about all this action with the Bonson Group?

The market doesn't think about the Bonson Group, but the Bonson Group does think about the

market.

And the markets, you could argue or thinking about the election a little, but I think there's

other aspects going on, but it was an odd day to day.

The market never went below its opening price.

We essentially were up all day on the Dow at some points the S&P and NASDAQ were a little down,

but there was a huge rally up. At one point, the Dow was up 530 points. You recall it was up over 400 yesterday, up over 400 Friday.

So, you know, there's a pretty significant rally going on.

Then that came all the way back close to the even level of the day.

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