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Tom Essaye’s Take on Market response to US legal and political drama on CNBC

Market response to US legal and political drama is ‘appropriate’

Tom Essaye, editor of the Sevens Report, was on CNBC, says “a lot more has to happen” for U.S. President Donald Trump to be impeached.

Tom Essaye quoted on Nasdaq – August 21, 2018

Morning Movers: TJX Jumps, Kohl’s Drops, Toll Brothers Soars

We always need a story to tell about why the market is heading higher, and the one that’s making the rounds this morning is about the dollar. In an interview, President Donald Trump criticized the U.S. Federal Reserve for raising interest rates, and that has added uncertainty to what had been all but certain. As a result, the U.S. Dollar Index has dropped 0.2% today because one way a currency gains value against another is by being from a country where rates are anticipated to be higher. And a weaker dollar is supposed to be helping risk appetite in the U.S. and abroad. “Those comments mostly affected the dollar (pushing it lower), which on a longer time frame is bullish for stocks,” writes The Sevens Report’s Tom Essaye.

Tyler Richey cited on MarketWatch – August 21, 2018

“Fundamentally there have been three headwinds on the market: 1) trade angst weighing on demand expectations, 2) fears that Saudi Arabia will more aggressively act to regain market share since the policy change in June, and 3) still steadily rising U.S. production,” Tyler Richey, co-editor of the Sevens Report, told MarketWatch. “The first of those three has seen some relief so far this week and that has helped oil bounce so far this week with other risk assets.”