A Third of the S&P 500 Will Report Earnings This Week

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It's put-up-or-shut-up week on Wall Street, aka earnings season. Just shy of 180 companies on the S&P 500, worth close to half of the blue-chip index's market value, will report results by the time the closing bell tolls on Friday.

After Netflix's first-quarter horror show last week, the eyes of investors will be glued to results from Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet -- tech titans worth a combined $8 trillion, i.e. a fifth of the S&P 500. They could well make it over a very low bar.

Source Fool.com