The stock market is in the middle of a very important earnings season amid 40-year-high inflation and rising interest rates.
The financial results from some of the U.S.'s largest companies can offer hints about the health of the economy. So far, trillion-dollar technology giants Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) , Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) , and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) have reported strong but mixed results.
They have revealed some weakness in consumer products and e-commerce, but significant growth in one segment in particular: The cloud . The three companies are among the largest providers of cloud services in the world, and their second-quarter results suggest businesses are still investing heavily in digital technologies.
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