Market Domination Overtime Host Josh Lipton welcomes Senior Business Reporter Brooke DiPalma and Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre to share breaking news of Alphabet's (GOOGL, GOOG) latest earnings results, highlighting the key numbers and what the report means for the tech giant's outlook.
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Alphabet topped Wall Street estimates for quarterly cloud revenue growth on Wednesday, as the Google parent benefited from strong demand for its cloud computing services from enterprises worldwide thanks to the AI boom. Revenue at Google Cloud rose 82% to $24.8 billion during the quarter ended June, accelerating from the 63% jump reported in the preceding three months. The third-largest cloud services provider behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, Google has seen demand surge as companies race to secure the cloud capacity needed to develop, train and run AI models, helping it land major deals with firms, including Anthropic.
All-Star Charts chief options strategist Sean McLaughlin joins Josh Lipton on Market Domination to share how he's looking at the earnings, specifically Alphabet (GOOGL), with options in mind.

IBM (IBM) is set to report quarterly earnings on Wednesday after the closing bell. Simplify Asset Management managing director and head of multi-asset solutions, Paisley Nardini, shares her thoughts on the upcoming results.

US stock futures (ES=F, NQ=F, YM=F) are sliding in Wednesday's pre-market trading as investors eagerly await second quarter earnings from Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) and Tesla (TSLA) after today's closing bell, officially kicking off earnings season for the Magnificent Seven. Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Pras Subramanian and Fundstrat economic strategist Hardika Singh to discuss the outlook around this earnings season and which segments of Alphabet's business that investors will be watching more closely.
Investing.com -- Alphabet reports its second-quarter 2026 results after the bell on Wednesday, and for this cycle, Wall Street has made clear that the numbers themselves are almost beside the point.
July 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures dipped on Wednesday, pressured by weakness in chip stocks, as investors remained cautious ahead of the first batch of Big Tech earnings that could decide
Reach (LON:RCH) said first-half revenue fell as lower referral traffic, particularly from Google, continued to weigh on digital audiences, but the publisher maintained that it remains on track to deliver full-year profit in line with market expectations. Chief Executive Piers North told investors t
Today Earnings: AT&T, GE Vernova, PulteGroup, CME Group, Moody’s, Philip Morris International Earnings (p.m.): Alphabet, Tesla, IBM, Southwest Airlines, Texas Instruments, CSX, ServiceNow, Raymond James Economic data: The Energy Information Administration will release its weekly petroleum status report.
Alphabet will report second quarter earnings after the stock market closes Wednesday. Analysts expect capex for the quarter to be $45.1 billion, a 101% increase from a year earlier.
U.S. futures declined amid rising oil prices as the conflict in the Middle East intensifies ahead of the peak earnings season.
Google reports Q2 earnings today. Here's what Wall Street expects from Alphabet's cloud growth, AI spending, and ad business.
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index jumped over 5%, its best single-day gain in a month, as bargain buyers piled onto semiconductor stocks.

Yahoo Finance's Josh Lipton takes a closer look at the top stories for investors to watch on Wednesday, Jul. 22, including Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) and Tesla (TSLA) quarterly earnings results.
AI spending and cloud growth will drive the reaction
Alphabet and Apple both crushed their last quarters, but they are running completely opposite playbooks heading into earnings season. One is burning through cash to own the AI future while the other hands it back to shareholders, and only one setup looks sharp right now.

Winthrop Capital CIO Adam Cooné explains how Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) second quarter earnings results would be a good "barometer" of both the market's health and broader narratives within Big Tech itself.
Alphabet Q2 Earnings Loom: Can AI and Google Cloud Deliver Another Beat?
Alphabet faces heightened scrutiny from investors as a delay in the launch of a model key to its AI ambitions adds to worries over the payoff from massive data-center spending, months after raising expectations with a blockbuster quarter for cloud sales. The Google parent — set to report second-quarter results on Wednesday — has delayed from June the launch of its next flagship model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, built especially to catch up with rivals in the lucrative market for AI coding tools and agentic AI tasks. "While Google is missing the boat on AI coding and that's a very real growing concern ... Google's strategy is all about the ecosystem," said Dave Wagner, portfolio manager at Aptus Capital Advisors.