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That's not as great as 2003 earnings growth, but still positive.

What's confounding most people out there is how do you get your hands around earnings, ... there's not that much out there in terms of earnings predictability.

What's all the fuss about in terms of this third quarter earnings warning? By any standard, these are very, very good results.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For tech multiples to significantly reverse direction, investors will need to feel comfortable about fundamentals again...including earnings estimates, IT spending trends, and macro issues.

I just don't know how far we'll be able to go with the Fed helping us out. At some juncture, the numbers as far as earnings are going to have to turn around.

Because Amex is so diversified in interacting with the consumer, if they're trying to talk down their earnings expectations, the implication is, 'What does that mean for what's going on in the economy?'

Investors' expectations of steelmakers' earnings are high. Steel producers may lead the market this week.

Investors are waiting for earnings releases, the peak of which will come next week.

Investors are taking stock of earnings and questioning whether they should be as optimistic as they are.

Investors are going to be surprised when we get a string of stronger economic stats. But we might have to get through earnings season before that happens.

(I)n Washington Mutual, you're getting in there at less than 10 times this year's earnings estimate. Earnings are going to be growing if not 10 percent, 15 percent, over the next two years. If you're in there at less than a double-digit multiple, and you've got 15-percent earnings growth going out, I don't see how you get hurt.

In-zone markets will probably have slower earnings growth.

In the past, I think there had been low expectations for Kyocera's electronics parts business, so I think investors had gradually started to view it as one of the losers in the tech sector. In that sense, these earnings are a positive surprise.

Mark Watson

Interest rates, to me, matter more than earnings growth. The prospect that rates are going up will revalue the whole market.

Mark Watson

Interest rates, to me, matter more than earnings growth, ... The prospect that rates are going up will revalue the whole market.

Before the earnings or at the earnings we will be able to give the guidance we promised.

But today's main trading theme was earnings reports released the previous day.

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

But if you step back, it seems to me that we're still in the trading range we've been in for some time. There's still the push and pull between rising earnings and rising interest rates.

I don't know how to handicap terrorism, other than to say that I think the risk premium should be higher than it is. But I think I can predict, directionally, earnings and the momentum of the economy.

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.

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 Motorola. They've been habitual offenders when it comes to earnings warnings.