We've got what to expect when the biggest companies in the economy report earnings this week.

Motley Fool Money starts now.

I'm Dylan Lewis, joined by Motley Fool Analyst Tim Byers.

Tim, how's it going?

It's going well, fully caffeinated, ready to go.

Likewise, and I'm excited to jump into it.

We have really the meat of earnings season.

We got the banks earlier, but I think we're getting into the companies that really move

the economy, at least as it relates to the stock market.

Big tech reporting earnings this week.

Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, all reporting in the next few days.

These are some of the biggest names in the market, and they are exposed to pretty much everything

that's happening in the world all the time.

Tim, what are you paying attention to when these companies report earnings?

I mean, everything, but if we have to isolate it to two big metrics, there's a couple of

things.

I want to see where they land in terms of margins.

Across the board, they're operating margins, they're net income margins, are they having

heavier losses or not, are gross margins expanding or are they declining?

It's not going to give us perfect insight into what the inflationary effects are, but

it'll give us something.

We believe that these companies have durable pricing power, and now we're in an uncertain

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