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Equinix operates 260 data centers in 71 markets worldwide. It generates 44% of total revenue in the Americas, 35% in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and 21% in Asia-Pacific. The firm has more than 10,000 customers, including 2,100 network providers, that are dispersed over five verticals: cloud and IT services, content providers, network and mobile services, financial services, and enterprise. About 70% of Equinix's revenue comes from renting space to tenants and related services, and more than 15% comes from interconnection. Equinix operates as a real estate investment trust.

Annaly Capital Management is a leading diversified capital manager. It is a publicly traded REIT that invests in and finances residential assets. The company has three different types of businesses: Agency, Mortgage Servicing Rights, and Residential Credit. The company's primary investment portfolio consists of agency MBS, managed on a leveraged basis. The company uses an actively managed portfolio and hedging strategies with the goal of preserving net asset value in different interest rate scenarios.

With every earnings win reported on Wednesday, there seems to be an equal and opposite reaction in the form of an earnings disappointment. And with earnings the main source of investor optimism or caution today, it's little surprise that the major U.S. stock indices are flat. Over the course of the morning, the indices have played jump rope with their opening levels, landing on one side for a period of time only to land on the other side shortly thereafter. Still, after multiple days of gains, the financial press is viewing the lack of further share-price progress as worrisome, and it is not difficult to find the words 'stalled' and 'lost steam' used to label the stock market today. Geopolitics are not helping, as tension in the Middle East continues to roil that area and is the basis for domestic discontent as well, while U.S. relations with China remain strained after the U.S. revoked export licenses for Intel and Qualcomm to sell chips to China's Huawei, a maker of PCs and mobile phones. The Dow was up 0.2%, the S&P 500 fell 0.1% and the Nasdaq lost 0.3%. Crude oil is trading below $79 per barrel and gold is little changed at $2324 per ounce.