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Jeff Baker

The quality of earnings was very good, and I think that's a good thing because revenues had been slipping.

The quality of earnings is the poorest in my career.

We are disappointed in our sales and earnings results,

Hugh Johnson

On the surface level it's a real simple story. Interest rates are rising and the outlook for the economy and earnings is darkening every step of the way.

It doesn't matter. Earnings could be doing anything.

We do not look favorably upon this tactic as we think it reduces quality of earnings and reduces management accountability and transparency.

The main focus is earnings and where do long-term interest rates go from here.

Analysts' forecasts for earnings I think are still a little too high. They are expecting 8-percent earnings growth. I don't think we're going to do that. For next year, they're expecting 14-percent earnings growth. I think we'll be lucky to do half of that.

The market's reacting positively to those (earnings) numbers, and we're kind of getting toward the end of earnings season so there aren't a lot of negative surprises left.

The market's noting that earnings are good, the economy is doing well, and yes, interest rates will rise, but not dramatically. Interest rate sensitive stocks are starting to come back after falling in the last few weeks.

James Buckley

The market has kept pace with earnings growth, so the market hasn't been particularly re-rated.

The market has gone up but earnings have gone up with it, so the market still hasn't been stretched on a valuation basis.

The market has focused on disappointing earnings or disappointing guidance about future earnings of just a handful of companies. When there's any hint that we're at the peak of earnings growth, the market gets pummeled.

The market has been in an irritable mood. If earnings and guidance are good, and there are no reasons to sell, then things should work out OK.

The market is sloppy and choppy. This is earnings season. We're going to have a mixed bag.

The market is really waiting for a little relief in terms of interest rates moving higher. Once we get that relief of the Fed being done, you'll see the market start to concentrate on fundamentals and the fact that we're still going to see pretty good earnings growth this year.

The market is pretty expensive as it is now, when we still don't know where the earnings are going to come from.

The market is just awaiting for the earnings season to begin. October, for whatever the reason, always has a rough start. For some reason, the market has a problem with the month.

The market is in a very strange mood, and so with earnings and revenue growth estimates, it's pretty hard to predict how the market's going to react to a company's earnings and revenue growth rate right now,

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

Apple's results are going to put a damper on stocks this morning. Investors are worried that it may set the tone for other reports at the start of the earnings season.

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.

Our earnings were pretty flat from 1999 through 2002.

E. B. White

People seem to be looking through this and saying what we see is a blip here, and we're going to see strong earnings later in the year,

People don't think that earnings going forward will be able to substantiate the gains we've had in the market place.

Operation Overdrive contributed to our double-digit earnings growth in every quarter of this fiscal year,

The moves in media stocks are never earnings based.

After a long product portfolio transition, we forecast that Bristol-Myers could return to a period of sustained high teens earnings per share growth in 2007-2010.

Energy in general will have great earnings momentum.

Earnings have been pretty astonishing, but the market hasn't always responded to that. I think people are feeling better about tech earnings in particular, but we still have worries about interest rates and what that might do to the recovery.

Earnings have been lackluster, guidance has been disappointing and the economic news we've just had, has raised inflationary fears.