By: Jeffrey Buchbinder, CFA, Chief Equity Strategist & Quincy Krosby, PhD, Chief Global Strategist

Earnings season is mostly behind us with about 85% of S&P 500 companies having reported second quarter results. The high level results aren’t particularly impressive, but if we peel back the onion, the numbers are encouraging. Results and guidance probably haven’t been good enough for stocks to add to recent gains, but they have been good enough, in our view, to end the earnings recession and limit the magnitude of any potential pullback. Here we provide some takeaways from this earnings season.

Read the full commentary here: Weekly_Market_Commentary_08.07.2023