Charting the Hot Mess Inside the Stock Market, with J.C. ParetsLet’s get set up for a very busy week

ahead, the biggest week of the season for earnings reports, and they will be flooding in from some of the most widely-held companies on the planet. Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google will all be reporting results, along with Ford, General Motors, Caterpillar, PayPal, Visa and Coca-Cola, just to name a few. And how are earnings coming in so far? Well, according to FactSet, for the first quarter of 2022, with about 20% of companies reporting, 79% of S&P 500 companies have reported a positive upside surprise, and 69% of companies have reported a positive revenue surprise. They tend to do that. We Go Togther Like Pumpkin And Pie Svg, Disney Fall Svg, Thanksgiving Svg, Instant Download

So far, for companies reporting first quarter results, the blended earnings growth rate for the S&P 500 is 6.6%. If that 6.6% holds, it will mark the lowest earnings growth rate reported by the index since the fourth quarter of 2020, when it was 3.8%. Growth is slowing. We’re going to get some updates to the U.S. housing market this week with the February Case-Shiller Home Price Index and March pending home sales due to be released on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday’s Case-Shiller update will include both the National Index and the 20-City Composite Index, measuring price gains in major metropolitan areas.Ursula Quarantined Svg, Ursula Face Mask Svg, Disney Villain Svg, Quarantine Svg, Instant Download