Wednesday - June 4, 2025
The Dividend Cafe
The Dividend Cafe - The Bahnsen Group
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🗓️ 4 June 2025
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Summary
Midweek Market Insights and Legislative Updates
In this episode of Dividend Cafe on June 4th, Brian Szytel from The Bahnsen Group provides a market overview, discussing the uneventful day in equities, with minor movements in the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq. He explains the rally in the bond market caused by private payroll numbers missing estimates significantly. Brian also reviews the mixed economic indicators from the May ISM services index and services PMI, noting one indicator in contraction and the other in expansion. He addresses the fiscal impact and revisions of a significant legislative bill, emphasizing the need for reduced spending, especially on entitlements. Additionally, he answers a question about section 899 of the proposed bill regarding tax rates for foreign investors in U.S. assets. He concludes by previewing upcoming data releases for the week, including initial jobless claims, productivity numbers, trade deficit, and employment figures.
00:00 Introduction and Market Overview
00:38 Economic Indicators and Employment Data
01:53 Fiscal Policy and Deficit Concerns
03:06 Foreign Investment Tax Proposal
04:19 Upcoming Economic Data and Conclusion
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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 to Dividend Cafe. This is Wednesday, June the 4th. Brian Saitel with you here at the Bolson Group, it was actually pretty uneventful in the equity side. |
| 0:22.8 | The bond market ended up rallying in price, and so the tenure was down about 10 basis points, |
| 0:27.6 | which is a pretty big move on the day. |
| 0:29.5 | But the equities, Dow was down about 90 points. |
| 0:32.4 | The S&P actually was just slightly up half of one point, not one percent, but one actual point move. So tiny |
| 0:39.0 | move. NASDAQ was up to 0.3%. That actually technically puts the S&P 500 up three days in a row, |
| 0:45.8 | and we're now up about 19.8% from the low in April in the market. A couple of things in the |
| 0:51.4 | economic side today. There was an ADP private payroll number that was largely below estimates. And that's why you saw a rally in the bond market, because employment on these numbers is starting to show some sort of cracks in the dam here. But you got a 37,000 print for the month of May. We were expecting 130,000. So that's a huge miss. The month prior, by the way, |
| 1:12.2 | was also a miss, if you remember. We got 62,000 for April. That was actually revised slightly |
| 1:17.2 | lower to 60. We get the non-farm payroll number on Friday, which is a more heavily watched |
| 1:23.3 | figure than the private payroll number, which can oscillate. And remember last month in April, |
| 1:28.2 | you had the ADP private number missed, and then you had a big number on the non-farm payroll. |
| 1:33.2 | So we'll see what we get on Friday. The May ISM Services Index was out today and was below |
| 1:39.3 | estimates. We got a 49.9 versus a 52.2. Numbers are arbitrary, but just remember anything below 50 is contractionary. |
| 1:47.2 | And then separately from that, the service's PMI number was out today and was just ahead of |
| 1:52.0 | expectations by about a point. We got a 53.7. So one of them was in contractionary territory. |
| 1:58.0 | The other one was an expansionary. So I'll call that a mixed bag and is |
| 2:01.3 | emblematic of what we saw in the equity market for the day. Estimates on the big, beautiful bill |
| 2:08.5 | that are coming out as far as the fiscal impact on the deficit. Estimates now from the CBOE are now |
| 2:14.5 | $2.4 trillion. This is still in the Senate. There'll be a lot of |
| 2:18.1 | revisions to this thing. So we don't know exactly where it will shake out. But somewhere between |
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