This Earnings Season Is the Stock Market’s Biggest Test

Baseball legend Tommy Lasorda, the former Los Angeles Dodgers manager who won two World Series, didn’t have much time for the idea of “pressure” in professional sports. Stock markets are different matter, however. The looming second-quarter earnings season—set against the pullback in big tech stocks, the resurgence of global geopolitical risks, and the specter of renewed inflation—has investors on edge.