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Hello and welcome to the Tuesday edition of the D.C. today. I'm your host, David Bonson,

and we are two days into the month of October, and the market

is up about 5.7% in the last two days, effectively erasing all of the violence of the last nine or

10 days of the month of September.

So that was a significant downturn that happened in nine days.

And so, you know, racing it may not seem like that big of a deal because you just

went from a low spot that went really low to now has come back to where it was.

But nevertheless, it's noteworthy.

You're talking about over, you know, 1,500 Dow points in two days.

It doesn't happen very often.

By the way, just for those of you that don't keep fresh in your math,

1,500 points off of 29,000-ish is a lot different than 1,500 points up around

35,000-ish.

You know, the percentages matter, and that's why some of this is pretty noteworthy.

I want to talk to you about why I think it's happened here in the next few minutes and

give you a little update on some things

happening in our world. So the futures were up 400 early this morning, had not been up that much

last night. I watched futures kind of stay in that range and then the market opened up about

700 points within 30 minutes. Excuse me. The market opened up about 700 points within 30 minutes.

Excuse me.

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