Big week for Big Tech as earnings, hearings loom

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The four giants, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google have weathered the economic impact of the pandemic by offering needed goods and services.

File: Earnings reports are due this week from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Google-parent Alphabet, whose combined value has grown to more than $7 trillion dollars.Big Tech is bracing for a tumultuous week marked by quarterly results likely to show resilience despite the pandemic, and fresh attacks from lawmakers ahead of the November 3 election.

Robust quarterly earnings results expected from Big Tech will"highlight the outsized strength these tech behemoths are seeing" but"ultimately add fuel to the fire in the Beltway around breakup momentum," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a note to investors. "For the most part, tech companies know how to do this dance," said analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group.Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research said the outlook for Big Tech may not be as rosy as it appears.

Organizers of a Facebook ad boycott vowed early in the third quarter to continue their campaign, saying the social network's top executives failed to offer meaningful action on curbing hateful content. Amazon, Google and Microsoft each have cloud computing divisions that have been increasingly powering revenue as demand climbs for software, services and storage provided as services from massive datacenters.

 

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