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The hourly earnings number was a little weaker than forecast. That means that more people are working, but wage pressure remains contained, and that helps profitability.

The hourly earnings numbers are soft obviously in January, but if you look at it on a three-month trend, in fact, you still find hourly earnings running at something like a 5-percent annualized rate. So I don't think that's going to sway the Fed's fear on the wage front completely.

We're late in the economic cycle. We're slowing down or at least -- I won't say going into recession but we're slowing down -- and we've got some troubles overseas with Asia. These aren't huge ones, but these could slow earnings growth to about 5 percent for the S&P 500.

We still have two weeks of earnings warnings ahead.

Terry Crews

We still expect our greatest earnings growth during the second and third quarters. The fourth quarter is expected to be a loss, but it will not be as large of a loss as last year.

Earnings momentum bottomed in (the fourth quarter) and will improve in 2000,

Earnings in 2006 will be influenced by a combination of higher rates, energy prices and perhaps even lower demand. The market is not excited with stocks right now.

Earnings have come in mixed and you have to pick your stocks carefully. The overall outlook for the markets is good.

Stock markets can still rise. Earnings are still growing. Investors shouldn't be worried about slightly slowing earnings growth.

The retail earnings are likely going to be strong and that helps the market.

Robert Morgan

Once all the results are in, I think this is going to be a positive earnings season. Some of the headline names have disappointed.

On balance, the earnings period so far has been very reasonable, even better than expected.

Once interest rates start to rise, the present value of developers' future earnings will start to decrease.

The negative pre-announcement season has been relatively light. That should bode well for the earnings season over the next two weeks. Oil prices are falling back. That's also helping ease some of the inflationary concerns.

It should be evident by now that the rest of the earnings are going to come in at the same sort of magnitude over estimates. The focus is going to shift.

It's been a more typical September than I expected. Earnings preannouncements have been disappointing, and surprisingly so, and economic news has been disappointing, and surprisingly so. I expected September to be on the strong side because the year overall has been so bad.

It's overall a mixed bag. The margins on the earnings were better than expected. The top line was worse than expected.

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.

That's not what we expected to see in a year when earnings growth would slow slightly, and we were seeing some of that slowing already.

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'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.

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.