2025-04-28
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Canadians head to the polls in an election dominated by threats from Washington and how one Ohio City,
population 265,000, became America's housing goldmine.
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It's Monday, April 28th.
I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News,
the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
It's almost time for the culmination of earnings season as Microsoft, Meta,
Amazon, and Apple prepare to report quarterly results in the coming days.
Along with Alphabet, Nvidia, and Tesla,
those magnificent seven tech stocks were largely responsible for lifting stocks out of the 2022 bear market,
but currently they find themselves in a very different situation.
So far this year, they've collectively shed $2.5 trillion in market value,
with each falling more than 6 percent, and their earnings dominance is expected to diminish.
According to analysts polled by FactSet,
the MAG-7 are on pace for just 16 percent profit growth this year, down from about 37 last year.
Microsoft and Meta's results are due on Wednesday, with Amazon and Apple following on Thursday.