Big Week: Coca-Cola, Meta, Apple Report

Today brings a flood of S&P 500 results. Coca-Cola reports this morning alongside UPS, Boeing, PayPal and Freeport-McMoRan. HCA Healthcare and Royal Caribbean also post numbers before the open.

Tuesday adds Alphabet, AMD and Pfizer to the queue. Wednesday is the biggest day of the week: Meta Platforms and Microsoft both report after the close, alongside Caterpillar and Eli Lilly.

Thursday brings Apple and Amazon, capping the busiest stretch of earnings season.

In Europe, Mercedes-Benz reports Tuesday. Dutch car registrations, a dataset ORTEX measures as a leading indicator of Mercedes revenue, are running 6% below the same quarter last year across all three months. Volkswagen and Renault follow Wednesday. Austrian car registrations, which lead Volkswagen revenue by 18 days, are also down 6% year-on-year.

No IPOs are scheduled in the next seven days.

The Russell 2000 December review rank date falls on 30 October. Life Time Group Holdings sits just 0.1% below the exit line, with $937M of forced selling possible if the stock falls back. The outcome is decided at the close on Thursday.