There are plenty of updates on Russia’s war on Ukraine, just noting this one.

Ukrainian President Zelensky announced the US visitors. He will meet with the two on Sunday.

Further weapons provisions will be on the agenda. Zelenskyy:

• said he expected “not just presents or some kind of cakes, we are expecting specific things and specific weapons.”

Unrelated – join us on ForexLive on Monday morning Asia time for opening rates.  EUR  will be in the spotlight with the French presidential election. Polls have Macron to win reasonably comfortably. But … polls have been unreliable and two-horse races have an in-built degree of unpredictability.

I’m not sure if this is the peak of earnings season as measured by the number of companies reporting, but it’s certainly the peak of big names reporting.

Monday morning starts off with Coca-Cola and that afternoon we get economic bellwether Whirlpool. The tech heavyweights go on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, including:

• Microsoft
• Alphabet (Google)
• Meta (Facebook)
• Apple
• Amazon
• Twitter
• Ford
• Mastercard
• DR Horton (largest US home builder)

Probably the scariest big cap tech stock chart out there right now is Alphabet, which on Friday broke through a level that’s been tested four times previously.