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Tom Essaye

Founder and President,

Sevens Report

About Tom

Tom Essaye is president of the Sevens Report, which he founded in 2012 with a singular mission: To combat the information overload facing financial professionals and provide research that helps them become more efficient and effective. The company began with a single product, The Sevents Report. This is a daily economic report that covers essential market information for stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, and economic data. Since 2012, the firm has expanded its research offerings to provide a comprehensive research solution for today's financial professionals. The firm now also offers an investment idea-focused product, Sevens Report Alpha, a client communication solution, Sevens Report Quarterly Letter, and a chart-based product, Sevens Report Technicals. 

Mr. Essaye has earned a national reputation for his straight-forward, plain-English, and accurate market analysis. He has been a frequent guest on CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, and Yahoo Finance and is widely quoted in the Wall Street JournalBarron'sMorningstarNew York Times, USA TodayMarketwatchAxios, NASDAQ, and Bloomberg. Tom is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and has an MBA from the University of Florida.


Tom's Articles

Concerns about the $1.4 trillion private credit market resurfaced last week when alternative asset manager Blue Owl Capital Inc. (OWL) surprisingly restricted withdrawals from one of its funds and sold off part of the loan portfolio of another fund to raise cash. That’s why you should monitor the Baa/Treasury credit spread, advises Tom Essaye, president of the Sevens Report.
Technology was the big market laggard again on Wednesday following disappointing earnings and more software anxiety. Seven of the 11 sector SPDRs were higher on the day, but the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) lost 2.8%, writes Tom Essaye, president of the Sevens Report.
The rally in small caps, as measured by the S&P 600 Index since the April 2025 lows, can easily continue into 2026. Whether a sustained advance will come to fruition will be almost entirely dependent on the economy, specifically sentiment towards a soft landing, writes Tom Essaye, president of the Sevens Report.
While not a bullish gamechanger, the net impact of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision will be to support a year-end rally and the reason is clear: The Fed wasn’t as-hawkish-as-feared. On the charts, gold remains rangebound between support at $4,200 per ounce and resistance at $4,400, observes Tom Essaye, president of the Sevens Report.

Tom's Videos

The presentation will examine the current state of economic growth and inflation to see if long-feared stagflation is making a return.  More importantly, however, we will analyze what that could mean for markets, including which sectors, factors and strategies would be expected to outperform and underperform.  That way, we know whether stagflation is a legitimate risk for investors and, more importantly, how to protect portfolios and outperform.