Pivotal week for world's most valuable companies 

More than 500 major companies worldwide will reveal how they fared this quarter, and how they expect the coming months to shape up.

It’s shaping up to be a pivotal week for global stocks, as companies worth trillions of dollars gear up to report quarterly earnings. As Netflix and Tesla showed last week, the pressure is on — to deliver or face a sharp selloff.

More than 500 major companies worldwide will reveal how they fared this quarter, and how they expect the coming months to shape up. In this busiest week of the season, earnings reports will flow from the likes of Microsoft, Google-parent, LVMH, Banco Santander, Volkswagen, Airbus, Sanofi, and Samsung Electronics.