While the fundamentals are positive, they still don’t justify current valuations — making the market vulnerable to a negative surprise…according to Tom Essaye, founder of the Sevens Report.
“Hawkish central-bank policy is bad for the oil market, because high interest rates over time act as a steady headwind…Tyler Richey, co-editor at Sevens Report Research, told MarketWatch.
“Retail sales is the next big number and then we’ll go from there,” Sevens Report Research’s Tom Essaye told Barron’s.
Sevens Report Research’s Tom Essaye told Barron’s in a phone interview that while the headline figure didn’t meet expectations, the numbers didn’t counter existing market narratives.
The initial market reaction to the CPI release was “a hawkish one, which saw oil prices decline to session lows,” said Tyler Richey, co-editor at Sevens Report Research.
How oil futures close out the week today will largely depend on how investors digest today’s jobs data. If it is more ‘market-friendly…analysts at Sevens Report Research said in a note.
The jobs report was Goldilocks, but it also added to some hints that there may be some weakness forming in the labor market…Essaye said.
Tom Essaye, publisher of Sevens Report Research, has provided a breakdown of how markets could react to the February jobs data.
“The AI craze is a modern gold rush, and the tech ‘picks and shovels companies’ are seeing earnings explode as companies buy chips and cloud space to fuel the boom,” said Tom Essaye.
This will be a potentially busy week of catalysts but it starts slowly today as there are no economic reports and just one Fed speaker, writes Sevens Report Research’s Tom Essaye.