Earnings Are Fraying Nerves Already With Amazon and Google Still to Come

What to Expect From the Tech Earnings Season

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Maybe it’s because there’s so little volatility in the market, but this earnings season is proving a particularly jarring one in individual stocks.

That’s according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which looked at 67 companies that posted results and found their shares moved an average 4 percent after earnings this quarter, among the biggest reactions of the past five years. Commodity and industrial stocks have had the biggest fluctuations, said the report, which examined firms with liquid options trading.