S & P 500 hit new intraday high in the middle of a crowded week of financial data, earnings

On Monday morning, stocks rose at the beginning of the week packed with financial data releases and several major quarterly reports.

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Companies comprising more than half of the S & P 500's market value reported the results last year, with earnings of 6.6%, and 77% of companies exceeding their bottom line estimates, according to an analysis by Jonathan Golub, US chief share strategist with Credit Suisse. These figures, compared to 5.4% and 71% over the last three years, added.

Investors had low expectations on their way into this earnings season, expecting a year-on-year decline in corporate profits as the Trump administration increase tax cuts began to fade and the outlook for international economies and trade softened.

With expectations already happening to the disadvantage, companies that missed expectations from the first quarter so far have been disproportionately penalized by investors: Shares in companies that missed top and bottom line estimates delayed the broader market with an average of about 4.1% following the results , while companies exceed expectations by 1.1%, Golub said.

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Meanwhile, reports that signal the state of the US economy will be the focus of this week, with the Federal Reserve issuing its latest policy statement Wednesday and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which enters the April work report Friday, data abroad will also be of interest to give a better picture of the state of the global economy, with the Bank of England set aside to release its own monetary decision on Thursday, and China's purchasing manager's index published Tuesday.

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Market participants will be approximated to the Federal Open Market Committees political statement Wednesday to measure members' response to recent data on the domestic economy, which grew much faster than expected 3.2 % in the first quarter. However, data pointed out that inflation remains below the Bank's 2% target, despite unemployment remaining low.

On Monday morning, CME Group's carefully watched FedWatch tools showed market pricing with a 98% likelihood that the Fed will keep prices unchanged on current bands of between 2.25% and 2.5%. It also showed a 2% probability that central banks would cut prices by 25 basis points.

The 10-year government bond rate and US dollar were roughly unchanged before Fed's monetary policy decision. The yield on the 10-year government bond crossed up less than 1 base point to 2.511% from Monday morning, while the dollar index held just over 98.

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