One looks for clues about this economy where one can find them. Today, it's in the books of corporate America. From Americandahl. It is Monday, today, 21 July. Good as it always is to have you along, everybody.

This is going to be a fairly light data week coming up. We'll get home sales, both new and used, durable goods orders, a couple of speeches by Fed officials.

That's about it.

Never fear, though, because in the absence of A-list economic indicators, we are going to get a whole lot of information about how corporate America is doing.

Quarterly earnings reports from the likes of Coca-Cola and GM, Lockheed Martin, Alaska, and American Airlines, Alphabet, Tesla as well.

We heard from Verizon today, they did pretty well. Also, Stalantis, which didn't.

The carmaker, which reports in Europe, it's a conglomerate of Pujo, Fiat, and Chrysler,

lost $2.7 billion in the first half of the year.

Some of that, it said, thanks to tariffs,

and it warned of more pain to come.

Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman gets us going

with what we might learn from the rest of this week's reports.

About 15% of S&P 500 companies have reported quarterly earnings so far.

And says Mike Dixon at Horizon Investments,

overall, the early read from a corporate fundamentals perspective is quite strong.

Starting with the big banks that reported last week, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America.

They came in fairly strong, most beat expectations.

Says Chris Haverland at the Wells Fargo Investment Institute.

He expects a lot more beating of Wall Street expectations as the earnings roll in. But he points out,

The bar has been set pretty low coming into this earnings season. Many companies actually cut

their earnings predictions in the past few months as uncertainty mounted about how much the

Trump tariffs would hurt their bottom lines. Rob Hayworth at U.S. Bank Asset Management says now, analysts want to know.

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