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Investors are impatient, they want big earnings

Lacklustre results from corporates wont cut it after stock rally.

It’s taking bumper corporate earnings and profit forecasts to impress investors this season, after a record first-quarter rally left stocks looking expensive.

S&P 500 firms are more than halfway through the reporting period and 79% of them have beaten profit expectations, according to data

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