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Most of the news in terms of earnings is out there. If they were to lower guidance dramatically or take a much more negative tone, that would be different, but I think in light of all they've got going on with PeopleSoft they're unlikely to do that.

Most of the news in terms of earnings is out there, ... If they were to lower guidance dramatically or take a much more negative tone, that would be different, but I think in light of all they've got going on with PeopleSoft they're unlikely to do that.

Merck tells an interesting story, yet the five-year revenue and earnings growth guidance seems far-fetched.

Robert Long

Microsoft tomorrow is the most significant earnings report this week. Everyone knows management's usually fairly cautious, so if they say something really good, that could help things a lot.

Robert Long

Microsoft tomorrow is the most significant earnings report this week, ... Everyone knows management's usually fairly cautious, so if they say something really good, that could help things a lot.

Microsoft led a string of disappointing releases that tarnish what had so far been a very good earnings season. This will weigh on the market today.

We had a lot of bumpy reports in the second quarter and we shouldn't have. The economy and production were very strong in the second quarter, and earnings should have been on the upside. The fact that they weren't is an important signal.

We've gotten more optimistic on earnings on U.S. stocks recently.

Tom Izzo

We're working towards it, but he's got to keep earning it, too.

VW had very strong earnings in the fourth quarter, but it was not only the numbers that were good -- overall, the tone is more optimistic now than after the third quarter.

Frank Abagnale

Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.

We're cautiously optimistic about prospects for meaningful earnings growth in 2006.

We expect Alcoa to kick off a relatively strong fourth quarter 2005 earnings season for the metals and mining sector.

We really thought growth would taper off heading into 2000 and it hasn't. It isn't going to be earnings that prick the stock market bubble.

We really need to find out, No. 1, the characteristics of these people, and No. 2, how many of them are earning minimum wage and accessing public assistance.

We had expected earnings to be a positive trigger this year and this is taking place.

Elizabeth Loftus

The pressure now is to get into the workplace and start earning money.

Jeff Baker

The quality of earnings was very good, and I think that's a good thing because revenues had been slipping.

The quality of earnings is the poorest in my career.

We are disappointed in our sales and earnings results,

Nothing in the earnings surprised me on the upside.

Nothing comes easy for the Saints and right now we're earning everything that we get. The kids are scrapping hard on the line of scrimmage and we're trying to make things happen. We are making some things happen. It just seems like it stays tough ... never completely easy as you're going down the stretch. That's the way it's supposed to be, I guess.

right now, earnings are more of a focus.

Right now investors are looking at any earnings reports as the glass half-empty rather than half-full.

Pharmacia reported earnings growth of 19 percent, but the pharmaceutical side was up more than 20 percent by itself, so that's the sustainable long-term piece when they spin off agriculture.

Positive earnings surprises ... are key to any further gains for the overall market.

On the earnings front, there's not much on the positive side. ...The fourth quarter is going to be a disaster.

On the face of it, the numbers were pretty good but there are some question marks about the quality and sustainability of earnings given that most of the upside seems to have come from the Power Generation side,

We could hit that ROE in 2006, but we don't expect to, We can generate earnings at that run rate through 2007.

Peter Greene

People are comforted by Intel, but it's unsurprising that they had a good quarter, so you're seeing a little sell on the news, ... Market events get discounted more and more these days, and I think you're especially seeing that as we get into this period of digesting the earnings news.

People are hesitant to trade high-tech issues and are waiting for their earnings results.

People are saying at some point the recession will be over and earnings will come, and at some point you have to own stocks.

Looking forward to 2006, our newer products should grow to about 24 percent of revenues and earnings per share should grow 8 to 11 percent, representing top-tier growth for large-cap pharmaceutical companies.