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Hello and welcome to the Tuesday edition of DC today. The month of October is officially over.

I'll go through some more month-end data recap tomorrow

since the market month just ended about 20 minutes ago.

But, you know, the market kind of ended pretty strong.

It would have been a much uglier month if it wasn't for the last two days.

And it's actually a little more interesting the way the market action went today than

even yesterday. Of course, the market was up well over 500 points yesterday and it was only

up about 120 plus change today. But following up a big market rally like that with another up day and another day where all 11 sectors were up.

So even in a day that was, let's see, the Dow is only up 38 basis points, the S&P up 65 basis points, the NASDAQ up just a little less than half a percent.

So it was kind of an okay day in all three market indexes, and yet all 11 sectors up after

a big rally day like yesterday.

It's a pretty strong showing.

And by the way, doing so when the bond market was down, You had bond yields moving higher yet again.

So I'll go ahead and go through the market data first and then come back to a couple other

items I wanted to cover. The bond yields were all showing a little bit down this morning, but

then they did come higher. Initially, the Eurozone announcing

their lowest level of year-over-year inflation in any given month in over two years caused bond yields

to drop a bit. That didn't last throughout the whole day. And the tenure closed at 4.91% up 3.4 basis points. In terms of the sectors,

if you find it interesting, I'll share it, I do. Yesterday the worst performing sector was

real estate and it was still up. And today, real estate was the best performing sector

up a little over 2%.

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