With the third quarter earnings season underway, watch FactSet VP Senior Earnings Analyst John Butters share his quantitative analysis of the S&P 500 on MRKT Call. Recorded the morning of October 6, John discusses analysts’ and companies’ more optimistic than normal earnings outlooks for Q3, the higher Q3 earnings growth rate for the S&P 500, expectations for sector-level earnings, and analysts’ expectations for the index in the second half of 2026 regarding growth and estimates. Watch now .