The Japanese economy and earnings show more signs of a pick-up, unlike those in the U.S.. That’s the main driver luring money into Japanese shares.

Overall, you can say the quarter was on the mark. The sales and earnings were about where they should be for this quarter.

Earnings figures reported this week were generally good.

This is material. From what we’re seeing, earnings estimates should probably go up for the fourth quarter, and 2005 numbers might come up as well.

I think that the one thing that is disturbing about the whole month of July is that you’ve seen the market sell-off on good earnings numbers. And it seems to remind me a little bit...

Ford is trading at eight times earnings while DaimlerChrysler is at 12 times earnings. We think Ford has a strong and stable management team while we’re seeing turmoil at DaimlerChrysler. And Ford is increasingly investing...

I was solicited to move to Florida and the Carolinas, but nobody ever gave me a presentation as to how me moving to any other region of the country was going to be better for...

Earnings weigh a lot on investment judgment. Any companies with disappointing results are sold off immediately.

They are in it to make money, period, … And they are looking at their earnings at the end of a fiscal year. You, on the other hand, are the total opposite of that. You...

It’s all related, I think, to the news from Colgate-Palmolive. It’s (earnings) preview season, which is always treacherous.

Investors are starting to realize that earnings aren’t terrific. For every good earnings report, there are three or four to the downside. It also seems that the bigger names are the ones disappointing.

I think there is risk in the market. If there is weakening in the economy, then an earnings recovery gets pushed out further into 2002.

We knew it was going to be a rocky opening after yesterday’s earnings reports but I think it was a very encouraging day. Valuations are reasonable but the fundamentals are going to get better.

But I wouldn’t be in a rush to buy these stocks right now. Maybe buy a little bit. Keep your powder dry, and wait a couple of months, see what happens. I’m very worried about...

Dividend increases supported by strong earnings will attract investors. With only two weeks remaining till the end of the fiscal year, people are sensitive to dividend news.

We continue to believe that Dell does not have adequate earnings power in notebooks, server and non-system revenue to offset the secular weakness in consumer and commercial desktops.

We’ve been focused on growing earnings, and we did that. Now it’s time to grow deposits for a while.

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.

The (stocks) with the highest (price-to-earnings) take that news the hardest.

It seems like the results were uncharacteristically in line with no upside for revenue and EPS (earnings per share). Typically, you get good upside on the top line and usually a penny better on the...