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Time now for to watch for the week of May 4th.
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A busy week ahead for markets with big earnings reports including Palenteer, Novo Norris, Uber and McDonald's.
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Let's hone in on semis, AMD reporting on Tuesday after the close, story is all about AI and data center momentum.
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Analyst expecting the chip maker to beat on the top line, driven by strong demand for its chips as cloud and enterprise customers lean further into AI workloads.
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Turning to the media space, we're getting quarterly reports from Paramount Skydance and Warner Brothers Discovery with their merger moving closer to a potential third quarter close.
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Disney also reporting for its fiscal second quarter, that company flagging pressure from weaker park attendance, but analyst anticipating improvement in stream profitability.
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This will also be the first earnings report for Disney since Josh Demaro took over as CEO.
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On the macro side, all eyes on Friday's jobs report, comments forecasting a sharp slowdown in hiring with payrolls rising by 60,000 in April, while wage growth ticks slightly higher and unemployment holds steady at 4.3%.
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And throughout the week, we'll be parsing fresh Fed commentary, policy makers holding rate steady at April's FOMC meeting, and investors will be looking for any clues on whether a softer labor market starts to shift the path forward on cuts.