This is a heavy earnings week, with 173 of the S&P 500 companies reporting earnings. Apple and Amazon.com report after Thursday’s close. Q3 earnings have been running strong so far. According to Bloomberg Intelligence, 84% of the S&P 500 companies that have reported so far have beaten forecasts, on course for the best quarter since 2021. However, Q3 profits are expected to have risen by +7.2% y/y, the smallest increase in two years. Also, Q3 sales growth is projected to slow to +5.9% y/y from +6.4% in Q2.St ...

The US and China will continue discussing the terms of a tariff truce extension, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, and President Donald Trump will make the final call https://t.co/ZVQ0Rklhrd https://t.co/i8cNxqosjJ ...

the discussion centered on the two economies. Uh we had a very in-depth report on them on the Chinese economy. Uh we gave a very detailed report on the US economy.We talked about the trade deals that we were doing with other countries. Uh we expressed our concern about Chinese over capacity globally and what that might mean for this year, for the next few years. uh we expressed our concern or their purchases of Iranian o sanctioned Iranian oil of which they buy about 90%. Uh we also expressed our regret tha ...