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July was the fifth straight month of gains for the S&P and the tech-heavy NASDAQ, driven

by better-than-expected earnings and hopes of a soft landing for the U.S. economy.

Ever more swayed by the movements of a select few big tech stocks, major stock market indices

have been buoyed by better

than expected earnings, even if expectations were not particularly high. With quarterly earnings

from Apple, Amazon, meta-platforms, Alphabet, and Microsoft now in the books, the mostly good

news against a tough backdrop is the focus of this week's viewsroom.

Welcome back to the Viewsroom, a podcast from Reuters breaking views, where colonists around the world talk about the big stories of the week.

Coming to you from New York, I'm your host, Jonathan Guilford.

Google Parent Alphabet, Facebook owner mattera, and e-commerce giant Amazon.com all had pleasant surprises in store for investors, reporting results that leaped an admittedly lowered bar given challenges at their core businesses.

The good times, however, were not quite shared by all.

Here to talk me through this are Breaking Views columnists and big tech watches, Robert

Siren and Jennifer Saber.

Hi, Rob and Jen.

Welcome back to the views room.

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