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

Significant investments throughout 2006 and an improving employment environment should produce substantial earnings growth over the next few years.

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.

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 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.

Barack Obama

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

Gary Pruitt

We are having a good fourth quarter, which has led us to raise our estimates of full-year earnings for 1999.

To be able to post another double-digit gain is pretty impressive. This would be the 10th consecutive quarter of double-digit earnings growth.

There is likely to be turbulence ahead. Earnings disappointments are devastating. This is not a time to loosen the safety belts,

Wal-Mart's sales have doubled and earnings have more than doubled over the past five years but we haven't done a good job in communicating that,

This would be earnings enhancing from the start.

The prospects for tech did not suddenly deteriorate. In fact, tech earnings have been very good.

I think we have to get through the earnings until we see a sustained advance.

John Davidson

I think that overall we are in for a pretty good earnings quarter, and that may be a positive for stocks.

Peter Green

I think that next week is going to be trying. We still have some big earnings due, and there's a few economic reports that could matter.

I think a lot of people are sitting on their hands, waiting for a little more meaningful earnings reports, ... Alcoa was better than expected and we have GE earnings at the end of the week, so maybe that will give us some direction.

We're late in the economic cycle. We're slowing down or at least -- I won't say going into recession but we're slowing down -- and we've got some troubles overseas with Asia. These aren't huge ones, but these could slow earnings growth to about 5 percent for the S&P 500.

We still have two weeks of earnings warnings ahead.

Terry Crews

We still expect our greatest earnings growth during the second and third quarters. The fourth quarter is expected to be a loss, but it will not be as large of a loss as last year.

We're at the end of the quarter so there is some window dressing. The focus is now totally on earnings, and this earnings season looks as though it will be strong if not stronger than last quarter.

The prevailing sentiment tends to be somewhat negative after the earnings reports.

While inventory levels rose in the first quarter, investors are likely to be encouraged that management increased its revenue guidance from the low 50s to the 50-60 percent range, with earnings per share guidance increasing by 2-to-5 cents.

With some US quarterly results robust, expectations for Japanese firms' earnings results to be strong are also growing.

Unfortunately, disappointing earnings have been a pattern for Magic Software in recent weeks. This is the fourth time in the last six months in which we have reduced our earnings-per-share estimates for the company.

William McKinley

We have seen some really big winners this week. Today was no different. With one-day gains on the earnings picks from four to six percent and momentum picks up as much as eighteen percent, I am quite sure the users were happy.

When you get rid of the volatility factor the stock option expense creates, the earnings growth was actually very good.

John Davidson

We're nearing the end of the earnings period, we've already heard from the Fed, and there aren't a lot of big surprises out there for the rest of the month.