🎙️ **Podcast Summary:**This week, markets kick off their busiest week for third quarter earnings reports, with Big Tech companies like Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Apple, and Amazon in the spotlight. So far, nearly a third of S and P five hundred companies have shared their results, showing a nine percent growth in earnings per share, marking nine straight quarters of growth, albeit slightly slower than earlier this year.Investors are closely watching these announcements, as they could sway the broader market. We've already seen major moves following earnings, with PayPal shares jumping over fourteen percent after beating estimates and announcing a new partnership with OpenAI. Meanwhile, Royal Caribbean underperformed despite beating expectations, and Wayfair shares soared more than twenty percent after beating expectations on both profit and revenue.Other notable reports include UPS, which lifted its forecast and saw shares pop, and UnitedHealth, which also beat expectations and raised its outlook. Waste Management and Whirlpool had mixed results, with Waste Management missing slightly on both earnings and revenue, and Whirlpool doing better than expected but still facing pressure from tariffs and weaker results overseas. As more numbers roll in this week, Wall Street will be watching closely to see if the trend of steady, if slightly slower, growth continues.

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