Stan Cho

In this June 16 photo, a sign for a Wall Street building is shown in New York. Earnings reporting season is about to get underway for big companies, and the forecasts are grim. Wall Street expects S&P 500 companies to report profits plunged by the most since the depths of the Great Recession during the second quarter.

A Hopefully Forgettable Earnings Season Begins

CEOs across the country are preparing to tell investors how they fared from April through June, and the forecast is uniformly dismal.

In this Jan. 2, 2020 file photo, traders monitor stock prices at the New York Stock Exchange.

After 2019, CEOs Must Grow Profits Soon

Investors are likely to give CEOs another pass this upcoming earnings season — which didn't have the benefit of the first year of lower tax rates — but in 2020, companies will need to deliver more.