Tuesday - May 6, 2025
The Dividend Cafe
The Dividend Cafe - The Bahnsen Group
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🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the latest edition of the Dividend Cafe Weekly Market Commentary! In this episode, Brian Szytel covers the recent downturn in the markets following nine consecutive positive trading sessions. He discusses key economic data, including the widening trade deficit and its implications for GDP, and analyzes recent movements in the bond market. Brian also provides insights into Federal Reserve policies and their potential impact on interest rates and inflation. Stay tuned for more updates on financial markets and investment strategies.
00:00 Introduction to Dividend Cafe
00:19 Market Recap: Two Days of Decline
00:43 Treasury Market Insights
01:36 Trade Deficit and GDP Calculation
02:28 Inflation and Tariffs Discussion
03:08 Upcoming Economic Data and Fed Meeting
04:27 Conclusion and Contact Information
04:36 Disclaimer and Legal Information
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dividend Cafe weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio and dividends in your understanding of economic life. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Dividend Cafe. This is Tuesday, May the 6th. Brian Saitel with you here today on now a second day in a row of negative here in markets. |
| 0:22.6 | We had nine positive trading sessions in a row. That was the first time since 2004. |
| 0:27.6 | And then we've had a sell off marginally on Monday and then again here on Tuesday. |
| 0:31.6 | The Dow closed down 389 points, which is a little less than 1%. |
| 0:35.6 | S&P was down three quarters of a percent. |
| 0:38.6 | NASDAQ was down about eight tens of a percent. So marginally lower across the board, |
| 0:43.4 | bonds did rally some. He had 10-year yields dropped by three bases points at 431. There was a 42 billion |
| 0:49.4 | auction of 10-year notes today that went off really well. This was the second highest bid to cover |
| 0:55.2 | ratio of the year. So that's good to see that kind of demand, especially in light of whatever |
| 0:59.9 | the media is saying about the US dollar and treasury prices and yields and such. They're |
| 1:05.0 | doing just fine here. But it's good to see. And I think part of the reason is because we're |
| 1:09.8 | seeing some of the effects of quantitative tightening that has come down from where it was. So as the Fed is now maintaining their balance sheet much more than they were letting it all run off as things mature, they're holding the line, so to speak. That puts less pressure on the treasury market when they have these large auctions like this. And I think that's what you're starting to see here with bid to cover. |
| 1:28.1 | You also have global uncertainty. |
| 1:29.6 | And regardless of what the media will tell you, the Treasury market is still the most viable, most liquid and trusted market in the world. |
| 1:36.3 | There was on the economic calendar today, the trade deficit widened to a record of $140 billion for the month of March. |
| 1:43.3 | Not a shocker. We're expecting |
| 1:45.7 | that. These are companies that are importing in advance of tariffs. So before prices go up on their |
| 1:51.3 | products and different things in the country, they wanted to advance that. And so there's a big surge in |
| 1:55.6 | imports. Exports were largely the same in that equation. And that might segue me into the topic around what |
| 2:02.2 | David had in there on the calculation of GDP. So what he's saying in there is essentially there are |
| 2:07.9 | some offsets so that things aren't double counted in consumption and with imports and exports in there. |
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