5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday

A third of S&P 500 companies are set to report quarterly results in the final week of April, including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Google-parent Alphabet.

Central bankers are not expected to take any action but are likely to defend their willingness to let inflation run hot.

President Joe Biden is expected this week to detail his American Families Plan and the tax increases to pay for it, including a much higher capital gains tax for the wealthy.

Sanofi will fill and pack millions of Moderna Covid vaccine in an effort to help meet demand for the two-dose inoculation.

India reported 352,991 new Covid cases Monday, a fifth straight 24-hour period of record highs.

The Biden administration said it will immediately make raw materials needed for India’s coronavirus vaccine production available, reciprocating help India provided when U.S.

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