Hard Landing/Soft Landing Scoreboard (Updated)

What’s in Today’s Report: Hard Landing/Soft Landing Scoreboard (Updated) and Post Fed Technical Takeaways.

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Tom Essaye Quoted in Financial Times on May 1, 2019

Tom Essaye, founder of The Sevens Report, said a modest but noticeable 539,000-barrel draw from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve — just the second time the US has tapped its SPR this year…

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Tom Essaye Quoted in Barron’s on May 2, 2019

Keep an eye on how the market overall responds to Wednesday’s drop. “Traders will be focused on whether the S&P 500 can hold yesterday’s low…”

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Tom Essaye Quoted in MarketWatch on May 2, 2019

Tom Essaye quoted in MarketWatch on May 2nd 2019. After Powell’s news conference, investors were “left with a market lacking a material, positive catalyst at the moment and one at the top of reasonable valuations…” said Tom. 

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FOMC Takeaways (Where’s the Positive Catalyst Now?)

What’s in today’s report: FOMC takeaways, why this Fed isn’t good at communication, jobs report preview, oil market update, Futures and more.

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Curve Steepening: Buy Banks?

What’s in today’s report: 10’s-2’s showing signs of life, S&P futures are indicating stocks will open at all-time highs today, AAPL beat on earnings and revenue in Q1 and more…

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Will the Fed Cut Rates?

What’s in today’s report: FOMC preview, U.S. futures and most international equity markets were mildly lower, on the earnings front, there are several notable companies releasing reports today and more.