Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Watson

Interest rates, to me, matter more than earnings growth, ... The prospect that rates are going up will revalue the whole market.

I just don't know how far we'll be able to go with the Fed helping us out. At some juncture, the numbers as far as earnings are going to have to turn around.

Mack Strong

I realize it's part of the deal. We're still earning our respect. That's fine. It doesn't come easily.

If people we're really trying to manipulate earnings you would think they would have done a better job.

Subodh Kumar

In the very short term, you are seeing a response to the economic news, and that can give the market some buoyancy. Whereas in September and October, the above-consensus earnings enabled the market to perform better than it traditionally has, in November the focus switches to the economy.

In the United States, there's the question of technology companies' earnings that is complicating matters. The market is highly volatile, with options expiration, oil prices falling. It's a combination of many things.

I don't know how to handicap terrorism, other than to say that I think the risk premium should be higher than it is. But I think I can predict, directionally, earnings and the momentum of the economy.

He's predictable in a good way. He doesn't make crazy, high-risk plays. He follows the system and is responsible in knowing what he has to do. And he has good speed, is strong on his skates and finishes his hits when they're available. He does all the little things well, so he's earning more and more ice time by proving himself.

Chris Edwards

Individual income taxes are the big driver. The stock market is up and people are earning more money.

I'm happy to report that the first-quarter earnings surpassed our expectations.

I'm honored to have the endorsement of FreedomWorks. I look forward to earning the individual support of the grassroots conservatives who make up the heart and soul of this organization that has done so much to promote freedom and pro-growth fiscal policies.

Intel's earnings announcement has made investors skittish about the prospects for other chipmakers and computer-related companies.

Dominique Moceanu

I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.

Because Amex is so diversified in interacting with the consumer, if they're trying to talk down their earnings expectations, the implication is, 'What does that mean for what's going on in the economy?'

But if you step back, it seems to me that we're still in the trading range we've been in for some time. There's still the push and pull between rising earnings and rising interest rates.

This initial earnings guidance for 2006 reflects the fact that the integration of May is going to be a more challenging and longer-term task than some investors had expected.

They run about 111 hospitals. It has about a 20 percent rise in earnings this year. Five- year projections are 20 percent annually. It's got operating margin around 20 percent.

The hourly earnings number was a little weaker than forecast. That means that more people are working, but wage pressure remains contained, and that helps profitability.

The hourly earnings numbers are soft obviously in January, but if you look at it on a three-month trend, in fact, you still find hourly earnings running at something like a 5-percent annualized rate. So I don't think that's going to sway the Fed's fear on the wage front completely.

Phil McGraw

Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.

Brenda Lee

The growth of earnings per share this year does not justify the 100 percent shares increase.

A higher valuation is justified when a company's earnings growth is significant. AMD's growth prospects are substantially higher than Intel's.

John Bartlett

You've got earnings growth visibility that's stronger than the market. M&A is a tailwind.

You've got a lot of layoffs, but yet 132 million people are earning legitimate wages,

The girls did a great job keeping the intensity up, and Darcy really stepped up this weekend. Going into the weekend we knew we needed to win at least one game, but they did a good job staying focused and earning the series win.

The majority of earnings have been good, but there have been some misses and the market has reacted violently to them. This is a week that has put me on alert.

The Iraq situation is going to loom pretty heavily. Some of the things I'd hoped would provide a stimulus, like the earnings announcements, haven't been there. We're going to be stuck in a trading range.

The underlying fundamentals of the market still remain very healthy. We are looking at good solid earnings growth in the first quarter and economic growth that has bounced back.

The type of investors who own this stock are not looking at it saying, 'I'm willing to pay 80 times earnings for this stock but not 85 times earnings,'

This is material. From what we're seeing, earnings estimates should probably go up for the fourth quarter, and 2005 numbers might come up as well.

This is a great start to 2006 and supports increasing our full-year earnings outlook.

A lot can happen during the summer. Earning a spot on the first team in the spring doesn't mean you're a starter in the fall.

Apple's results are going to put a damper on stocks this morning. Investors are worried that it may set the tone for other reports at the start of the earnings season.