Thursday - October 2, 2025
The Dividend Cafe
The Dividend Cafe - The Bahnsen Group
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Daily Market Recap and Job Data Insights - October Update
David Bahnsen provides a daily recap of the Dividend Cafe, highlighting that the market was up with the Dow gaining 79 points, the S&P up slightly by 4 points, and the NASDAQ increasing by 18 points. He mentions the bond market's rise with the 10-year yield down 2 basis points. Sector performances show materials leading while energy declines. Due to the government shutdown, key job reports were missing, but alternative data sources like the Chicago Federal Reserve jobless level and the Challenger Gray and Christmas report offer insights. The report indicates a 24% rise in layoffs year-to-date compared to 2024 and a low level of new hirings. David teases the upcoming Dividend Cafe episode with takeaways from the week's meetings and ends with a mention of supporting the Yankees.
00:00 Introduction and Market Overview
01:03 Sector Performance and Government Shutdown Impact
01:21 Job Market Data and Analysis
03:25 Upcoming Reports and Final Thoughts
Links mentioned in this episode: DividendCafe.com
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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. |
| 0:10.0 | Well, hello and welcome to the daily recap of the Dividend Cafe. This is David Bonson as partner, Brian Saitel, is out in a meeting this afternoon with one of our money managers. |
| 0:23.8 | So I'm doing the quick recap of the day. |
| 0:27.5 | And markets were again up today, really not any kind of response or interest or reaction or drama at all about the government shutdown. |
| 0:37.5 | The Dow is up 79 points, which is a whopping 17 basis points on a percentage basis. |
| 0:43.8 | The S&P was basically flat. |
| 0:46.1 | It was up four points, which is six basis points, so, you know, barely up. |
| 0:50.5 | And then the NASDAQ was up 18 points, which is 0.39%, 39 basis points. |
| 0:57.0 | So all three indexes up, but again, not by a ton. The bond market was also up at the long end of |
| 1:03.6 | the curve. The 10-year yield was down two basis points, closing below 4.09% in the 408s. So you had a little bit move higher in the bond market. |
| 1:16.1 | And in terms of the stock market sector breakdown today, materials were the leading sector up |
| 1:22.7 | over 1%, but then energy was down 1%. And it was close to half and half in terms of sectors that were up versus sectors that were |
| 1:33.3 | down. |
| 1:34.1 | The initial jobless claims number that comes every week on Thursday morning did not come |
| 1:39.6 | today because of the government shutdown. |
| 1:42.0 | The monthly BLS number, the Bureau Labor Statistics, |
| 1:45.8 | that comes the first Friday of every calendar month, |
| 1:49.2 | will not come tomorrow because of the government shutdown. |
| 1:52.7 | But what we did get today was a Chicago Federal Reserve jobless level, |
| 1:57.4 | and the outplacement firm Challenger Gray and Christmas does a monthly report. |
| 2:02.4 | So a lot of us that are data geeks are looking at substitute metrics that help provide some |
| 2:10.0 | color on things while we await a return of certain governmental data. And of course, |
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