Bad Drivers, Good Dollars, and Crony Deals
The Dividend Cafe
The Dividend Cafe - The Bahnsen Group
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🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Today's Post - https://bahnsen.co/3JLnpSl
It has been an interesting week in the market, but as you will see in the first paragraph below it may seem like nothing happened whatsoever. That is more common than people think. Today we visit the state of the U.S. dollar, the “safe haven” of bitcoin, the politics of oil, the nature of contrarian investing, and more. Just a lot of easy-bite tidbits to edify you this beautiful spring weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dividing Cafe weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio and dividends in your understanding of economic life. |
| 0:12.8 | Well, hello and welcome to this week's Dividendin Cafe. I don't usually think you guys care much about hearing my own stories as to where I am and why I'm there and what's going on. |
| 0:24.2 | But this particular week has been a real labor of love to get this thing recorded because I am actually out of my desert house in Ranch, Marage, California. |
| 0:35.6 | And the Wi-Fi went down. |
| 0:38.1 | So I am recording across the street from my own house at the Ritzkarton Hotel |
| 0:43.3 | just so I can give you this week's Dividing Cafe. |
| 0:46.7 | It is absolutely amazing how dependent our lives become on Wi-Fi |
| 0:54.1 | and the interconnection of home appliances and systems |
| 0:58.1 | and basic living with such things in addition to the work functions like recording Dividin Cafe. |
| 1:07.0 | So I'm glad it was all able to work out here and hopefully you'll get some information out of this week's Diven Cafe. |
| 1:15.0 | They'll be interesting to you, but thought I'd explain why I'm in a different destination than intended. |
| 1:20.0 | Let's talk about this week as I'm sitting here recording. |
| 1:23.6 | We're literally at 38,000 on the Dow. |
| 1:26.5 | And last Friday afternoon when the market closed, we were at 38,000 on the Dow. And last Friday afternoon, when the market closed, we were at 38,000 on the Dow. |
| 1:31.2 | So this could seem like an uneventful week, except for there were 330 missiles fired at Israel by Iran last Saturday. |
| 1:39.8 | And Israel did some form of a quasi-retaliation against Iran last night. |
| 1:47.3 | And in between, there were interest rates moving and oil prices moving and earnings season beginning. |
| 1:53.1 | So you would think this would have been a week of some substantial market volatility, |
| 1:57.1 | especially coming off the last two weeks, where markets had dropped roughly |
| 2:01.7 | 1,500 points on the Dow, 3 to 4 percent in the S&P and the Dow. |
| 2:07.4 | And yet it appears that we're going to end up somewhere right where we started. |
| 2:12.0 | So I just thought I'd reiterate something I'd said a couple weeks ago in any short term |
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