Investors have another minefield to navigate this week: big earnings reports

As if investors didn't have enough on their plate, the corporate earnings season ramps up this week. More than 100 companies in the S & P 500 are slated to post their first-quarter results, including Boeing , Tesla and Alphabet . But what investors will likely key on won't be the backward-looking Q1 figures. Instead, given the uncertainty caused by rising global trade tensions, they will intently focus on what corporations have to say about their short-term outlooks. President Donald Trump this month announced a series of steep tariffs on imported...
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