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That kind of news will spook the market and we will hear more of it because we're at the peak earnings reporting season.

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

It's simple: They have to generate earnings growth. They haven't had any in two years.

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 just so happened that we had a number of big-name, negative reports come in to start things off, and it just went from there. Turns out that wasn't indicative of where things are. Earnings are very strong.

It was pretty panicked this morning, but as the day wore on some bottom-fishers stepped in. Probably what you're going to see next week is the same as this week. It's gonna be that way for a few weeks until we start to see some earnings or get some good news.

It makes a lot of sense particularly if you're younger and not at your peak earning years. A high-income individual might want to think twice about enrolling in a Roth 401(k).

It's going to have to reach a point sometime in the future when the earnings aren't going to justify the valuations of stocks,

It's going to have to be the third-quarter earnings to save the market.

Newt Gingrich

Only the elites despise earning money.

Paul Singer

Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

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

Ron Hill

The key thing here is, we're sort of short on liquidity, so we don't have enough money to raise everything. Investors have to focus on good sectors with leading stocks especially with good earnings revision profiles, and where there's support for rising profit and expectations going forward,

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,

They have great products. They're going to make physical things that people will pay money to buy, that will result in earnings in real dollars.

Third quarter and fourth quarter earnings estimates need to come down dramatically.

This initial earnings guidance for 2006 reflects the fact that the integration of May is going to be a more challenging and longer-term task than some investors had expected.

For me, I get immense pleasure out of giving. I do what I can. I try and give around 10% of my earnings a year. Some years, I give more, some I give less.

Robert Barry

Ford's restructuring plan was widely anticipated, but was more vague and protracted than we expected, which is disappointing. We also see sizable North American share loss continuing, weighing on earnings and offsetting many restructuring benefits.

The number looks pretty much in line. Ex-food and energy was better than expected. The focus is on earnings now this economic number is out of the way. The market looks to be doing OK off the get-go here.

It's the triple-whammy of tax planning: tax-free contributions, tax-free earnings and tax-free distributions. There are very few opportunities like that,