Wednesday - July 1, 2026
The Dividend Cafe
The Dividend Cafe - The Bahnsen Group
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🗓️ 1 July 2026
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Summary
Brian Szytel recaps a down, rotation-driven market day from West Palm Beach, with the Dow near flat, the S&P 500 slightly lower, and the Nasdaq weaker amid a sharp semiconductor sell-off (down 5–10%) even as some software and communication services names rose. He cites strong Korean AI chip export growth (70% year over year) but suggests investors may be pricing semis for perpetually outsized growth and reacting to signs of a peak growth rate. Inflation commentary helped rates ease slightly and the yield curve steepened marginally, though the 10-year Treasury ended around 4.48%. Economic data included ADP private payrolls at 98K (below expectations), ISM manufacturing at 53.3 (expansion), and weak construction spending, reflecting housing softness tied to higher rates. He previews a holiday-shortened week and Thursday’s nonfarm payrolls report.
00:00 Market Open Recap
00:24 Semis Selloff Explained
00:49 Korea Chip Demand Peak
01:34 Rates and Fed Talk
01:53 Index Closes and Yields
02:08 Economic Data Rundown
02:53 Housing Softness
03:31 Rotation and Small Caps
03:48 Jobs Report Preview
04:28 Wrap Up and Sign Off
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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. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome back to the Dividend Cafe. This is Brian Saitel, your host for this evening here from our West Palm Beach, Florida office here in a very sunny and muggy and hot day here in Florida. |
| 0:24.5 | And a bit of a down day in the market, although we had traded up for most of the day. |
| 0:29.0 | There was an ongoing rotation in markets. |
| 0:31.2 | You had the Dow up for most of the day. |
| 0:33.4 | S&P was flat and then you had NASDAQ quite negative. |
| 0:36.6 | And really it was largely driven around the sell-off in the semiconductor space. |
| 0:40.3 | So you just had this bifurcated technology space today. |
| 0:44.3 | You had some of the communication services names that were higher on the day. |
| 0:47.3 | A lot of the software names were up and then you had all the semis down and down big, 5 to 10%. |
| 0:52.3 | So an odd day. It does speak to sort of those peak levels inside |
| 0:57.5 | of the semis, both from a demand standpoint and a pricing standpoint. And we have seen that actually |
| 1:03.1 | in Korea, the two largest companies there, Samsung and HK are producing these AI semiconductor chips, |
| 1:10.2 | and those are a trillion-dollar market cap companies now. |
| 1:13.2 | But if you look at the data that we got out of Korea, it was actually very robust. |
| 1:17.1 | So, I mean, the demand, export growth accelerated to 70% year over year. |
| 1:21.2 | It's huge. |
| 1:22.2 | Up 53% from the month prior. |
| 1:24.2 | The issue isn't that the numbers aren't amazing. |
| 1:26.2 | The issue is that we're likely hitting some sort of a peak in some of that. And so you're seeing some of these names like today that just sell off so much because they're just priced in for an ongoing, perpetually amazing percentage growth. And then the delta changes. It doesn't mean it slows or it goes negative. It just means that the rate of growth is changing and slowing down a little bit. |
| 1:46.3 | So that was what I would say is the biggest news on the day. |
| 1:51.2 | Warsh was actually at a conference in Portugal, Centra, and had some comments. |
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