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It just so happened that we had a number of big-name, negative reports come in to start things off, and it just went from there. Turns out that wasn't indicative of where things are. Earnings are very strong.

That's not what we expected to see in a year when earnings growth would slow slightly, and we were seeing some of that slowing already.

That kind of news will spook the market and we will hear more of it because we're at the peak earnings reporting season.

This earnings increase is the highest we have seen since 1999. It has been growing much faster than inflation.

Before the earnings or at the earnings we will be able to give the guidance we promised.

Any rise in global oil prices increases their earnings substantially,

Any (profit) short-fall in that growth rate at 110 times earnings means there's some risk in these stocks.

As earnings fall, corporations are quick to slash compensation costs, and that is brining about wholesale job cuts.

The big question making the rounds now is: How does one really judge value and are strong first-quarter earnings (expectations) already factored into technology stocks?

I like stocks that have potential earnings possibilities. Those are the ones that could someday be market leaders.

I like Merck, in particular, because here's a stock that's retreated dramatically from its high, but still has its earnings growth-rate intact, ... This company, I think, can grow about 13 to 15 percent. And its price-to-earnings ratio now is getting down to a level that I think is very reasonable relative to its long-term growth rate.

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.

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

Inflation is tame. Economic growth continues. Earnings are great. It really doesn't get any better than this. The one problem in the market is valuation, which has gotten pretty high.

Jeff Adrien

I'm just earning my minutes, I knew I had the capabilities to play here, and it was just a matter of going out and doing it. Finally I'm doing it and I'm even more hungry to do even more, there are more things I can do.

Chris Edwards

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

Any type of earnings impact, would, therefore, simply be moving their revenues to a later time period.

They have great products. They're going to make physical things that people will pay money to buy, that will result in earnings in real dollars.

Sendhil Mullainathan

It's 2014, and women are still paid less than men. Does this suggest that a gender pay gap is an unfortunately permanent fixture? Will it still be with us in 50 years? I would predict yes. But by that point, it will be men who will be earning less than women.

It was a record year in earnings, sales and earning per share.

The worst of the earnings news is probably out of the way and expectations are probably back in line.

They are also reasonable value, and earnings momentum is holding up better than expected.

The risk is on the upside, because the market knows that we are at the end of the earnings cycle, it's just that earnings are not turning as fast as many had hoped.

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.

Herbert Marcuse

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

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.

Dominique Moceanu

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

But today's main trading theme was earnings reports released the previous day.

Generally, earnings are better than expected and I think the stock market is receptive to that.

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.