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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,

We could hit that ROE in 2006, but we don't expect to, We can generate earnings at that run rate through 2007.

Peter Greene

People are comforted by Intel, but it's unsurprising that they had a good quarter, so you're seeing a little sell on the news, ... Market events get discounted more and more these days, and I think you're especially seeing that as we get into this period of digesting the earnings news.

People are hesitant to trade high-tech issues and are waiting for their earnings results.

People are saying at some point the recession will be over and earnings will come, and at some point you have to own stocks.

Looking forward to 2006, our newer products should grow to about 24 percent of revenues and earnings per share should grow 8 to 11 percent, representing top-tier growth for large-cap pharmaceutical companies.

Looking back, the S&P 500 is at four-and-a-half-year highs, so it seems the market had no problems with earnings last quarter.

the expectation is there will be a fairly strong stream of earnings disappointments in the second quarter.

The expectation is that earnings growth is slowing, so any kind of improved earnings would help,

Lindsay Fox

The old man sold beer after hours on weekends. And that was something that he probably did to top up his earnings as a truck driver. Mum was the traditional housewife. Loving, caring, sharing - always the keynotes of the family.

The fact that the Fed is remaining vigilant is positive for earnings growth. They see a robust economy and they see that continuing.

With many people fearing a profitless recovery, earnings will probably surprise to the upside.

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,

What we need right now is earnings growth, and some sort of weakness in the retail sector is a threat to that.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Robert Barry

We see sizable North American share loss continuing, weighing on earnings and offsetting many restructuring benefits.