Markets Will Want to See Strong Results Says Tom Essaye

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US Stocks Rebound From Selloff as Nvidia, Other Chipmakers Rise

“Markets will want to see strong results and more signs of robust demand, but also evidence of restraint and a focus on stability and not a further doubling down on the current AI component spending war,” wrote Tom Essaye, founder of The Sevens Report newsletter.

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Could Be A “Canary In The Coal Mine” For The Stock Market

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Tom Essaye said that cheap AI stock valuations could signal that investors are growing fearful that the data center boom could come to a halt.

Why Oracle’s recent credit downgrade could be a warning sign for stocks

According to Tyler Richey, a technical analyst at Sevens Report Research, it could be a “canary in the coal mine” for the stock market.

The ratings agency cut Oracle’s rating from BBB, citing heavy infrastructure spending and it’s high exposure to OpenAI as risks to its ability to meet its debt obligations. While the news went relatively unnoticed in the stock market, Sevens Report says equity investors should pay attention, as it could be an early warning of bigger issues on the horizon.

“ORCL very well may turn out to be the first of the mega-cap-tech ‘Hyperscalers’ to be rolling over into what could (and is increasingly likely to) prove to be the early stages of a longer-term, cyclical bear market for equities,” Richey wrote in a July 13 client note.

“A higher trending junk bond yield index with stocks trading near all-time highs is a troublesome combination,” Richey said.

“Bottom line, the ORCL downgrade last week served as a stark reminder that critical signals from the bond market can be subtle at first, but offer both fair warning of a potential downturn, and a rare opportunity to take action to protect principle in riskier equity and bond market holdings,” Richey said.

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Tom Essaye Quoted in Bloomberg

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We need some solid earnings from the key tech names this week, Says Tom Essaye

Stocks, Bonds Fall as US-Iran Risks Whipsaw Oil: Markets Wrap

“For stocks to rebound, we need some solid earnings from the key tech names this week, and de-escalation in Iran wouldn’t hurt,” said Tom Essaye at The Sevens Report. “Markets will want to see strong results and more signs of robust demand, but also evidence of restraint and a focus on stability.”

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The AI Trade Has Been More Volatile Advises Tom Essaye

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The AI Trade: How to Navigate Today’s More Nuanced Tech Boom

The AI trade has been a more volatile influence on markets so far in 2026 – and this price action reveals the it’s starting to become more nuanced. Understanding that nuance is now important for understanding if the market can still rally without AI leadership, advises Tom Essaye, president of the Sevens Report.

Prior to 2026, the AI trade was basically a rising tide that lifted all tech boats regardless of their position in the AI/tech value chain. However, that’s changed. Now, there are three distinct groups/subsectors within the AI trade and they do not all trade together.

In fact, there’s growing evidence they may trade inversely to one another (at least partially and from time to time). Right now, the AI sector in the markets can be loosely grouped into three distinct buckets:

* Receivers of Capital (ROCs). These are the AI/data center infrastructure industries such as memory, semiconductors, networking, cloud storage, computing power, etc. These sectors have surged for most of 2026 as they are “receiving” the hundreds of billions of dollars being spent by the hyperscalers to build out AI data centers.

* Spenders of Capital (SOCs). These are the hyperscalers. They are the ones spending the hundreds of billions of dollars to build and manage AI data centers and create computing and memory capacity to support the rollout of AI across the economy.

* Software/Disrupted Sectors (SaaS). These are the sectors that may be at risk of having their business models “disrupted” (which is just financial media speak for damaged). AI could potentially replace these software solutions and skills and damage these companies’ long-term prospects.

Bottom line: Take stock of tech allocations to make sure they aren’t dramatically overweight semiconductors, memory, SaaS, hyperscalers, etc. Instead, have balance across the various parts of the AI value chain, including ROCs, SOCs and SaaS. That way, as the AI trade continues to evolve, you have balanced exposure to whichever part is taking a leadership role at that time.

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Tom Essaye – Staying Cautious With The Magnificent Seven Names Into Earnings. 

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One chart reveals why investors are concerned about earnings from Microsoft, Amazon, and other hyperscalers

“For me, it’s going to be about earnings with the Mag 7. It’s going to be about the capex number. What’s happening with free cash flow. And what is their guidance and how we turn all of this into real money sooner than later,” Sevens Report Research founder Tom Essaye said on Yahoo Finance’s Opening Bid.

Essaye is staying cautious about the Magnificent Seven names heading into earnings. 

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Tom Essaye Talks About Netflix with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor

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I think that this is a very smart move by Meta, Says Tom Essaye

Why Netflix is a lot less ‘compelling’ than these 2 media stocks

Sevens Report Research founder Tom Essaye chat with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi about why Netflix isn’t a compelling buy in the media/entertainment space.

You know, over the past couple of years, Netflix has pulled levers to increase profitability by cracking down on sharing, by introducing, you know, more aggressive advertising, that sort of thing. But in the end, they’re now kind of being driven by their show slate and as you said, they have not had a hit in a while and that’s a problem.

Now, certainly the decline makes it, you know, somewhat attractive maybe on a value basis, but I agree with Thomas, it’s a show me stock. You have to see that there’s some sort of a of a turnaround or something coming down the pike that you can get excited about.

I actually agree with you, Brian. I think if I’m going to allocate some dollars to entertainment and sort of content, I would prefer Disney.

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Geopolitical Headlines Still Have The Potential to Blindside Traders

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Global oil prices notch back-to-back rise, remain ‘tethered to the Hormuz narrative’

Given Monday’s big rally in oil prices and Tuesday’s whipsaw intraday retreat from the highs, Tyler Richey, co-editor at Sevens Report Research, said it’s clear that geopolitical headlines still have the “potential to blindside traders and [trading] algorithms alike.”

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Tom Essaye and Yahoo Finance Opening Bid Panel Discuss Big Banks

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I think that this is a very smart move by Meta, Says Tom Essaye

Big banks see consumer holding up despite economic uncertainty

Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi and his Opening Bid panel featuring guests: Globalt Investments senior portfolio manager Thomas Martin, Sevens Report Research founder Tom Essaye, and Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Brooke DiPalma discuss what big banks are saying about consumer resiliency.

As long as the unemployment rate stays low. That’s the key to the whole sort of economic resiliency. That and the fact that the hyperscalers are just fire hosing hundreds of billions of dollars into all corners of the economy as they build out data centers as fast as they can. But the unemployment rate is low

And people can get jobs. And as long as that’s the case, then they’re going to be generally able to keep up, relatively speaking, with this inflation, and that’s been the key. The trouble is if that unemployment rate starts to rise or that people start to have a hard time finding jobs. That’s the lynch pin. As long as the unemployment rate stays low, then people can continue to stomach very high beef prices and egg prices and all the other things we’re having to deal with.

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Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Discusses IBM Earnings With Tom Essaye

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IBM set to have its worst day since 1961

Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi and his Opening Bid panel featuring guests: Globalt Investments senior portfolio manager Thomas Martin, Sevens Report Research founder Tom Essaye, and Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Brooke DiPalma break down IBM’s (IBM) worse-than-expected quarterly results and what they signal for the company’s future as the stock tumbles nearly 25% in today’s session.

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Tom Essaye chats with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi

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I think that this is a very smart move by Meta, Says Tom Essaye

Is Meta’s recent rally sustainable?

Sevens Report Research founder Tom Essaye chats with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi about Meta’s latest stock moves and what that may signal about its sustainability.

So essentially kind of the bullish catalyst was AI deciding to lease out a lot of their processing power and compute to all this AI demand. So here we go. We’re sort of leveraging on the AI data center demand craziness even more. And don’t get me wrong, people are paying for a premium and I think that this is a very smart move by Meta.

But I don’t view this as sort of a this isn’t a sustainable turn for them. This is them just looking around saying, okay, what can we make money on and we have capacity here and let’s lease it out while demand is sky high. Shrewd move in the short term. I think it is created a decent size bump in the stock obviously, and the chart is looking better, but for me it’s going to be about earnings, it’s going to be about their CapEx number, what’s happening with free cash flow, and what is their guidance on how we turn all of this into real money sooner than later.

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