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...

It’s obvious there’s an impact [on earnings]; that’s why we are cutting output to support our profitability.

Increases in copper and gold prices created new room for commodity-related stocks to rise. Their earnings prospect is quite solid.

We think the sell-off that we saw in Albertson’s was excessive just given the sell-off, the stock today is trading at nine times and ten times — ten times this year’s earnings or nine times...

We’re all a part of General Electric and GE is an earnings-driven company,

All of tech has been massacred, but our data suggests that storage may weather the storm better since its earnings stream will be more reliable than almost any other area of technology.

It’s going to be difficult for stocks in the short run. Now that interest rates have risen, there is going to be tremendous pressure on earnings. Without earnings, there is not going to be a...

We’ve had earnings from some high tech firms that came in better than expected, and investors want to see if the same will hold true for companies tied to the domestic economy (such as steel...

We generally see exposure of less than 10 percent of earnings if a strike lasted an entire quarter, which we believe is highly unlikely.