earnings

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Tech stocks, including Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia, are trading at less than 20-times expected earnings after a significant underperformance.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Valatsas highlighted the solid jobs growth of 178,000 in March, the fall in unemployment to 4.3% and the 3.5% increase in average hourly earnings.

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

In fact, most of J. T.’s foot soldiers also held minimum-wage jobs in the legitimate sector to supplement their skimpy illicit earnings.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt