The busiest and most crucial week for fourth-quarter earnings is here. These five companies will do the heavy lifting.
The heaviest stretch of the fourth-quarter earnings storm hits this week, with 106 companies set to report results. But results from only five — all part of the gang of tech behemoths known as the Magnificent Seven — will play an oversized role in steering collective corporate profit growth into positive territory for the period. The numbers explosion begins on Tuesday, with results from two of those seven, Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.23% and Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +0.21% GOOG, +0.10%. It continues ...