Notes You Need for February 22: oil inventories, MIC, U.S. dollar, Treasury auction, AMZN, PRGO, net neutrality

Notes You Need for February 22: oil inventories, MIC, U.S. dollar, Treasury auction, AMZN, PRGO, net neutrality

In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don’t justify a full post. I’ve decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I’m calling Notes You Need. A typical post resembles this one from today: “1:40 p.m.: Amazon (AMZN) has launched its own Basic Care line of more than 60 over-the-counter health products. The products are produced by Perrigo )PRGO), a private-label healthcare manufacturer, for Amazon. Perrigo reports earnings on February 27. “

Market reaction to Microsoft isn’t making me jump up and down ahead of Facebook, Amazon earnings next week

Market reaction to Microsoft isn’t making me jump up and down ahead of Facebook, Amazon earnings next week

In my Saturday Night Quarterback post last weekend, I said that I was looking for Microsoft’s (MSFT) earnings, reported after the close yesterday, July 20, for clues on how the U.S. stock market would react to earnings reports from Alphabet (GOOG) on July 24, Facebook (FB) on July 26, and Amazon (AMZN) on July 27.