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What stands out

The clip highlights a familiar market pattern: individual corporate news moving whole sectors. Merck raised its full-year profit outlook after Keytruda sales outpaced expectations, a clear earnings beat that investors rewarded. Microsoft posted stronger-than-expected results and lifted sentiment, while Alphabet lagged after its report and Caterpillar moved on continued demand for power-generation equipment tied to AI infrastructure. The episode bundles health-care, industrials, and big tech beats and misses into a tidy snapshot of what’s driving today’s biggest winners and losers.