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S&P 500 Nears Key 50-Day Moving Average After Global Selloff

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Tom Essaye of Sevens Report flags 6,665 as the next critical support level.

As the stock market wobbles, this is the key level to watch for the S&P 500

U.S. stocks remained under pressure in premarket trading Friday as global markets sold off across Europe and Asia. With investors questioning how much further the market could fall, Sevens Report Research founder Tom Essaye pointed to the S&P 500’s 50-day moving average — currently at 6,665.75 — as the next key level to watch.

The index closed at 6,720.32 on Thursday, according to FactSet data. Notably, the S&P 500 hasn’t closed below its 50-day moving average in 132 trading sessions — the longest such streak since February 2007, Dow Jones Market Data reported.

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Sevens Report: Powell’s Hawkish Tone “Not Bearish” for Stocks

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Tom Essaye says AI enthusiasm and trade stability outweigh Fed uncertainty.

Powell’s warning won’t derail the stock-market rally, maintains this strategist.

The Sevens Report, authored by former NYSE trader Tom Essaye, dismissed the idea that Jerome Powell’s hawkish comments Wednesday are bearish for equities. Powell’s remark that a December Fed cut is “not a foregone conclusion” sharply lowered market odds of a 25-basis-point cut—from over 90% to near 55%, which Essaye called “a coin flip.” Still, the report argues the bull case for stocks remains intact. Essaye cites four reasons: the Fed could still ease, Powell didn’t signal the end of rate cuts, AI optimism remains strong, and U.S.-China trade stability has improved. Essaye emphasized AI as the dominant driver, noting Powell’s remarks “don’t reduce the tailwind on risk assets.”

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AI Now the “Lynchpin” Holding Up Stocks, Warns Tom Essaye

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Sevens Report’s Tom Essaye cautions that AI enthusiasm is masking deeper market risks from tariffs, a cooling labor market, and government dysfunction.

‘AI is becoming a larger and larger lynchpin’ for stock market, analyst warns

Tom Essaye, founder of Sevens Report Research, warns that the stock market could face a “horror-movie scenario” if three key risks hit at once — an AI bubble burst, worsening consumer strain, and a weakening labor market. He points to OpenAI’s $500 billion valuation and stretched tech prices as signs of speculative excess. Meanwhile, rising delinquencies at companies like CarMax show lower-income consumers are increasingly pressured.

Essaye cautions that while the economy still looks stable on the surface, markets are ignoring the potential for rising unemployment and slowing growth. If AI optimism fades and consumer spending weakens, the S&P 500 could fall 20–30%, mirroring the drawn-out collapse of the early 2000s tech bubble.

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Tom Essaye Warns of “Horror-Movie” Market Scenario if AI Bubble and Consumer Stress Collide

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Essaye cautions that a deflating AI bubble, weakening consumers, and a softening labor market could trigger a 30% S&P 500 drop.

Three scenarios that could spook stocks in October, according to a Wall Street veteran

Tom Essaye, founder of Sevens Report Research, warns that the stock market could face a “horror-movie scenario” if three key risks hit at once — an AI bubble burst, worsening consumer strain, and a weakening labor market. He points to OpenAI’s $500 billion valuation and stretched tech prices as signs of speculative excess. Meanwhile, rising delinquencies at companies like CarMax show lower-income consumers are increasingly pressured.

Essaye cautions that while the economy still looks stable on the surface, markets are ignoring the potential for rising unemployment and slowing growth. If AI optimism fades and consumer spending weakens, the S&P 500 could fall 20–30%, mirroring the drawn-out collapse of the early 2000s tech bubble.

Also, click here to view the full article published in MarketWatch on October 7th, 2025. However, to see the Sevens Report’s full comments on the current market environment sign up here.

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Sevens Report: ‘Bearish Wheels in Motion’ for Oil as Supply Rises, Demand Wanes

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Tyler Richey says crude risks a deeper slide with $61.50 key support level

‘Bearish wheels are in motion’ for oil after a three-session climb

Crude oil is on track for its first loss in four sessions as supply builds and demand softens, according to Tyler Richey, co-editor at Sevens Report Research.

“OPEC+ is re-engaging in a fight to reclaim market share from non-member producers, while demand faces pressure from rising stagflation risks,” Richey said. He noted the dynamic is “straight out of the economic 101 textbook” and has set the “bearish wheels in motion” for crude.

On the charts, $61.50 a barrel is the key near-term support for WTI. A break below that could accelerate losses toward the $57–$58 range, Richey warned. October WTI recently traded at $62.49, down 1.9% on Thursday.

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Tom Essaye: Rising ETH/BTC Ratio Could Signal Stock Market Volatility

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Tom Essaye: Rising ETH/BTC Ratio Could Signal Stock Market Volatility

Why the S&P 500 could be at risk of a 10% to 20% pullback if ether falls behind bitcoin again

History suggests that a resurgence by Bitcoin in which it underperforms Ethereum could be a warning sign that stock-market volatility is about to increase, with the S&P 500 potentially facing a decline of 10% to 20%, according to Tom Essaye, founder and president of Sevens Report Research.

Since early July, Ether has outpaced Bitcoin by a wide margin, rising 44% compared with Bitcoin’s 4% gain after trailing the world’s largest cryptocurrency for months. Historically, a rising ETH/BTC ratio has often coincided with sharp, short-lived rallies in equities that eventually gave way to market peaks, Essaye wrote in a Thursday note.

“In the last 10 or so years, every time we have seen such a robust and pronounced rise in the ETH/BTC crypto-pair, stocks have been sprinting higher in lockstep,” Essaye said. Strong bursts in ETH/BTC have historically lined up with important turning points in equities, among them the “low-volatility” rally of 2017 that preceded the 2018 selloffs, the spike in late 2019 ahead of the 2020 pandemic crash, and the 2021 rally that gave way to the 2022 bear market, he noted.

The ETH/BTC ratio has also surged 130% from its five-year low in April this year, moving in step with the strong tech-led rebound in stocks from their early April 2025 lows, Essaye added.

The one exception came in 2023 and 2024, when Bitcoin consistently outperformed Ether even as stocks remained strong, a departure from the earlier pattern. That contrast makes the current setup especially notable. With ETH/BTC rising again, investors should watch closely in case the historical relationship reasserts itself, Essaye said.

On Aug. 24, the ETH/BTC ratio touched 0.043, its highest level since September 2024, according to FactSet. Ether has gained 38.5% year to date, including a 75.9% surge in the past three months, compared with Bitcoin’s 20.3% year-to-date rise and 6.3% gain over the past three months.

“The risk of the long-ETH/short-BTC trade becoming exhausted appears underappreciated,” Essaye warned, pointing to signs that the momentum has slowed. The uptrend in place since August could soon be tested from the technical perspective, he added.

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MMT Chart: A “Relatively” Different Look at Stocks

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What’s in Today’s Report:

  • August MMT Chart Update: A “Relatively” Different Look at Stocks
  • ISM Services Index – A Fresh “Whiff” of Stagflation
  • Stagflation Risks Set Gold Up for Run to Record Highs

Futures are tracking global markets higher this morning as investors shrug off both the ISM Services Index from yesterday, which carried a whiff of stagflation, and soft earnings from semiconductor giants AMD (-7%) and SMCI (-17%) after the close yesterday.

Economically, EU Retail Sales rose 3.1% vs. (E) 2.6% which is serving to tamp down worries about the health of the global economy.

Looking ahead to today’s session, there are no noteworthy economic reports due to be released.

However, the Treasury will hold a 4-Month Bill auction at 11:30 a.m. ET and a 10-Yr Note auction at 1:00 p.m. ET and investors will look for the recent trend of healthy demand metrics to continue, despite the sharp drop in yields since Friday’s dismal jobs report.

Additionally, there are a few Fed officials scheduled to speak who could shed light on the prospects of a September rate cut (which is increasingly expected) including Cook & Collins (2:00 p.m. ET) and Daly (3:10 p.m. ET).

Finally, earnings season continues with MCD ($3.15), UBER ($0.62), SHOP ($0.20), DIS ($1.47), NRG ($1.54), ABNB ($0.93), and ET ($0.32) all reporting quarterly results today.

For now, investors are overlooking the soft semiconductor earnings from late yesterday, however, any Q2 results that challenge the idea that the consumer remains resilient and healthy in 2025, could add to recession worries and pressure stocks again today.

 

How stock-market investors should trade what could be a historic Fed dissent on Wednesday

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Dissents unlikely to signal policy shift amid speculation over Fed succession

How stock-market investors should trade what could be a historic Fed dissent on Wednesday

Under normal circumstances, dissents for a rate cut would signal a dovish shift. But current dynamics make that unlikely to move markets, said Tom Essaye, editor of Sevens Report Research.

“Don’t believe any reporting that implies the dissents are a dovish surprise or make a September rate cut more likely,” Essaye wrote Tuesday. “It won’t be a surprise and they won’t make a September cut more likely.”

Essaye notes that any dissents from Waller or Bowman would be seen as political positioning, not monetary policy pivots—particularly as both are viewed as potential successors to Chair Jerome Powell, whose term ends in May.

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Sevens Report Co-Editor Says $750B EU Energy Deal Carries Financial Asterisk

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Tyler Richey, Co-Editor, Sevens Report Research Quoted by MarketWatch.

The Energy Report: They Said It Couldn’t Be Done

“If there are plans to more rapidly expand Europe’s nuclear power capacity by utilizing U.S.-based companies, and the power-plant construction, operation, long-term fuel fulfillment contracts, and future reactor services (some of which can be decades long) are all included in that $750 [billion] ‘headline number,’ then there could be a case made that the pulled-forward dollar amount of future operations could boost the value of the deal,” said Tyler Richey, co-editor at Sevens Report Research.

However, that scenario would require some “financial engineering” to achieve the $750 billion, which would “leave the realistic dollar amount of the deal carrying an asterisk based on the three-year timeline mentioned,” Richey told MarketWatch.

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Sevens Report Co-Editor Questions Validity of $750B US-EU Energy Deal

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Tyler Richey says headline figure may rely on “financial engineering”

The E.U. to buy $750 billion of U.S. energy products. Why that’s ‘absurd.’

The European Union’s plan to buy $750 billion worth of U.S. energy products raised eyebrows this week, with Sevens Report Research co-editor Tyler Richey calling the figure “absurd” without major assumptions baked in.

“If there are plans to more rapidly expand Europe’s nuclear power capacity by utilizing U.S.-based companies… then there could be a case made,” Richey told MarketWatch.

But that would require “financial engineering,” he added, and the three-year timeline would likely leave the real value of the deal carrying an asterisk.

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