earnings

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JPMorgan will get the ball rolling on financials next week, with first quarter updates following from the country’s biggest banks, as analysts see sector earnings rising 18% to around $98.5 billion.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

This comes as the U.S. economy has been fairly strong and resilient, with corporate earnings still pegged to grow at a double-digit rate.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Anthropic expects to cross that line next year, though other costs are expected to keep the Claude chatbot parent in the red on a pretax earnings basis also until 2029.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

The sector is likely to see earnings grow more than 46% from last year to $182.8 billion, a tally that would represent around 30% of the entire S&P 500 earnings scorecard.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

All these subprime lending companies were growing so rapidly, and using such goofy accounting, that they could mask the fact that they had no real earnings, just illusory, accounting-driven, ones.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis