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The recent tech gains were supported by a wave of upward revisions to earnings forecasts. But for those shares to go further from here, investors need to know how they are going to perform next year.

Ultimately what we're trying to come to grips with is the fact that we understand that second-quarter earnings are not going to be good but the timing of a recovery is hanging over our head. We'll get some forecasting, looking out, but it's what those forecasts say that puts proof in the pudding.

It was too much for the market to overcome. Otherwise, it could have been an even better year profit-wise if so much of (companies') earnings weren't deflected into energy costs.

These stocks are pretty much earnings driven. If the earnings come through, I think the stocks are going to move higher and, on balance, I think we are in a healthy environment, which bodes well for stocks in this whole group.

These results extend our string of record first-quarter earnings to four years.

The stocks that are benefiting most from better earnings are the small and mid-cap ones.

The stock ran up since the last earnings call, and the holiday sales were in line with expectations, not great.

The stock market has already priced in a good recovery in earnings. The risks are that if that the earnings rebound doesn't happen, we could end up slipping back.

Subodh Kumar

I see volatility until the end of the month. With earnings season near and energy prices high there will be volatility.

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.

When all is said and done, the fact of the matter is we will have double-digit earnings growth for the S&P 500.

We got some good earnings news from Cisco and from Pepsi. Oil has also been pretty tame today.

We expect revenues and earnings to grow considerably for the full fiscal year 2005.

The story on slowing earnings growth and revenue growth is not over.

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

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

Stock markets can still rise. Earnings are still growing. Investors shouldn't be worried about slightly slowing earnings growth.

Sure, earnings will be slower than they were in the fourth quarter, but margins can't expand forever. But on a risk/reward basis, stocks are still attractive.

It's overall a mixed bag. The margins on the earnings were better than expected. The top line was worse than expected.

Dieter Zetsche

DaimlerChrysler made significant progress in 2005. But our earnings are still not where we want them to be.

The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first job they ever had, all through their lives,

The numbers look good. The earnings show the operating leverage is still strong.

It's just eroding. It's all panic and follow-through on tech earnings fears. Biotech and Internet stocks are all getting slammed with some flight to safety into Dow stocks, but I don't see it being sustained.

It's a strong result and importantly for investors they've maintained their earnings guidance.

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.

It's going to have to reach a point sometime in the future when the earnings aren't going to justify the valuations of stocks,

It's going to have to be the third-quarter earnings to save the market.

It should be evident by now that the rest of the earnings are going to come in at the same sort of magnitude over estimates. The focus is going to shift.

It's been a more typical September than I expected. Earnings preannouncements have been disappointing, and surprisingly so, and economic news has been disappointing, and surprisingly so. I expected September to be on the strong side because the year overall has been so bad.

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.