Morning Minute: CSCO & COHR Earnings; AKAM Upgraded


CSCO and COHR fell despite earnings beats; AKAM rose on a JPMorgan upgrade. Jenny Horne covers these pre-market movers.

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Jenny Horne's Morning Minute captures a neat market mismatch: Cisco and Coherent both beat on revenue and earnings yet slid in early trading, while Akamai jumped after a JPMorgan upgrade. The clip matters because it compresses three lessons investors see every day, headline beats do not guarantee rallies, analyst actions still move prices, and short-term trading can diverge from the underlying business story, especially in tech where guidance and sentiment often outpace the numbers.