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We've sort of gotten through the meat of earnings season, and we're going to start focusing on the state of the economy.

There are a lot of cross-currents in the market. We're still a market that's torn between (concern about) earnings and interest rates.

Louis Gerstner

This was a solid quarter, with earnings per share up 20 percent and an acceleration of revenue growth relative to the first half of the year,

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

We're still running with oil stocks. They still are being supported. They haven't become much more expensive because earnings are going up with them.

Until we start seeing some better earnings news, I think the market's going to be in this bottoming phase.

Until we see earnings impacted by oil, I don't think the market is going to be responsive.

We're going to see volatile markets for the next little while with all this uncertainty regarding earnings. We need to see a general improvement in the tone of earnings and especially with guidance.

What we're looking at generally is whether the market can get past these levels. We think there's enough strong sentiment and stimulus in the pipeline for that to happen and that the earnings will ultimately lead the market, but it's a process, and it's going to take time.

Since we have only a general volume guidance for 2006, we do not have a specific earnings-per-share guidance, other than our expectation that earnings per share will increase in 2006.

Motorola had to spread its resources over too many areas. By moving away from the semiconductor business, it can spend more on research and development and also make its earnings stream more smooth.

Many of the energy sector earnings have been revised up recently, and that includes forecasts for the second quarter and for the full year.

Seven of our ten units had double-digit earnings growth and an eighth had record earnings.

Selling the drug unit is going to focus the company. The earnings were also better than expected. It is a good day for investors.

So far the earnings season has gotten off to an underwhelming start. I think the positive news from Intel is just what the market needed and is likely to lead to a favorable opening on Wednesday.

So far the earnings season has gotten off to an underwhelming start, ... I think the positive news from Intel is just what the market needed and is likely to lead to a favorable opening on Wednesday.

So I think that kind of spooked the market a bit, but we're in heavy earnings season, so we're going to hear a lot of that stuff going forward.

We're just winding down the year, ending the year with these sort of small, middling gains, which to me makes sense because you've had opposing factors this year. On the one hand you've had good earnings and a robust economy, but on the other hand, you've been fighting the Fed. The two canceled each other out.

Peter Oppenheimer

Year-over-year revenue growth of 34 percent and earnings growth of 41 percent were the second highest in any given quarter in Apple's history.

With no major earnings news scheduled and losses in Tokyo, the (U.S.) market is lacking support for further gains.

When the season for the main earnings begins, the market is likely to slow somewhat.

We're seeing the same thing that we saw in October during the last earnings period, where investors used mostly good news as a reason to take profits.

Lucent this morning hints at the possibility that you may see other disappointing earnings in the sexier names. The reality is that expectations seem pretty high and the price of the market as a whole has moved higher to reflect that. It doesn't leave a lot of room for disappointment.

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,

The profits are exceeding everyone's expectations. It's one of those rare moments in time where corporations really have earnings momentum.