News Snapshot:
The back half of the earnings season gets underway this week, with key companies across different sectors set to report. AMD, Clorox and Starbucks are among the roughly 150 S & P 500 components that will announce results. For the most part, the season has been better than expected. FactSet data shows that slightly more than 70% of the S & P 500 that have reported earnings have beaten earnings expectations. Among those are industrial giants Caterpillar and Honeywell . To be sure, there have been some big disappointments, such as Meta Platforms and Alphabet . Check out some of...