Welcome to the Dividing Cafe weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio

and dividends in your understanding of economic life.

Well, hello and welcome to the Dividendon Cafe. It has been an amazing week. I am David Bonson,

Chief Investment Officer, managing partner at the

Bonson Group. Many of you know that for those who don't know. I just always want to make the

introduction so you know who you're talking to. And today you're talking to someone who was really,

really blessed, privileged, thrilled, honored to ring the bell on the opening of the New York Stock

Exchange this morning, along with Brian Saitel, my co-chief investment officer, and Kenny Molina,

our director of investment solutions, Mina and Jolene from our client experience team,

and Teddy and Lipping, our research equity analyst.

We all together were on the four of the exchange ringing the bell.

And I joke in Dividendon Cafe that if all you did this week was look at the market where it closed last Friday and then look at the market

where it is here today. And keep in mind, as I'm recording, there's a couple hours to go. So who

knows, but markets just down a couple hundred points on the whole week, literally, like 0.4%.

And so you might think, oh, the biggest story of the market this week was

Bonson and his team getting to ring the bell in the floor of the exchange. But actually,

it was a pretty significant weekend markets. It just round-tripped. And what I mean by that is

there had been a sell-off late last week, especially in the big tech things.

And then going into the weekend, there was some questions as to where things were in markets.

And on Sunday night, as American futures opened up, they were down quite a bit.

And across the world, as Japanese markets were opening in Tokyo.

They were getting hammered and it quickly became apparent that Japan and the Niki was not down

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