Howard Silverblatt
Howard Silverblatt
Howard Da Silvawas an American actor, director and musical performer on stage, film, television and radio. He was cast in dozens of productions on the New York stage, appeared in more than two dozen television programs, and acted in more than fifty feature films. Adept at both drama and musicals on the stage, he appeared in the original 1943 run of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, and also portrayed the prosecuting attorney in the 1957 stage production of Compulsion...
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The bottom line is that the problem has definitely gotten worse. If this goes on much longer, it's not going to be just an investor concern, it's going to be a retiree concern.
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Investors want it; institutions want it, and companies are starting to react.
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It's still very good growth, considering. And again, there's nothing wrong with repurchases.
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The cost of oil will likely still be pretty high, consumer spending is slowing down, and it'll be tax time.
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It'll downshift just a little bit. But there's nothing wrong with that. You can't expect 20 percent profit growth forever.
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While the magnitude is troublesome, the inability to compute and compare issue information is alarming.
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Either show the results or give it back to us.
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Beyond the first quarter, you get a lot of ifs, ands and buts.
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There's some question of 'did the companies lowball the numbers?'
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It would be nice if it turned out we were wrong again, that our forecasts for the second quarter were also too pessimistic, but unfortunately, I don't think that's going to be the case, ... With the ongoing currency situation, higher oil prices, and the more difficult comparisons year-over-year, a slowdown is to be expected.
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The bulge in cash is permitting companies to simultaneously finance record levels of stock buybacks and dividends,
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Oil prices are going nowhere but up and so we believe that earnings are going to go south. It does cast a doubt over whether earnings growth for the rest of the year will be at double-digit levels.
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Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to post record earnings.
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Companies were shy, ... they are definitely doing more.