The cat's out of the bag here with IBM. It's going to affect more than IBM, because Y2K is a concern and it's going to affect many different sectors of the market. And analysts have already switched from just looking at earnings to quality of earnings.
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Related [Another pick is New Era of Networks ( NEON ).] This is a stock that was doing very, very well, and ... SHAWN JOHNSON The market is sloppy and choppy. This is earnings season. We're going to have a mixed bag. ALAN ACKERMAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It's just safer to shop around in the domestic-demand-related and defensives departments at the mome... TOKIO FURUTA What's going to drive stock gains going forward is the earnings, and the current crop of earnings ma... KEVIN CARON How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL There's a lot of trepidation out there about earnings, ... A lot of times, the complexion of markets... ART HOGAN Worse than the reservoir cuts is the fall in production, because that is what will affect earnings. ENRIQUE SOLDEVILA Dell is a company that I think may have some value here but as its earnings growth comes down I thin... WALTER WINNITZKI So far the earnings season is kind of a mixed bag. It's not the catalyst that everyone was expecting... LARRY WACHTEL So far the earnings season is kind of a mixed bag. It's not the catalyst that everyone was expecting... LARRY WACHTEL The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is good and bad in the report, something for everybody, on the positive side the company manag... BOB WALBERG IBM is going to have another negative effect in the broader market. It's a major stock. ANDRE BAKHOS I think that the IBM numbers in particular are going to be important. The chatter that I hear is tha... BRETT GALLAGHER I think the key in the market is technology, because what has been giving us this extraordinary earn... DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT We've now changed the valuation of the stock market quite a bit, ... If anything, the earnings estim... ALFRED KUGEL Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leav... JOHN AUGUSTINE The only shoe that still has to drop is the earnings picture, and I think second-quarter earnings ar... FRANK LA SALLA It's not going to affect monetary policy. The Fed is forward looking. The change is at the low end o... GARY SCHLOSSBERG In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The mainframe is much more important to IBM than meets the eye. Off of that mainframe IBM gets a ton... BOB DJURDJEVIC The mainframe is much more important to IBM than meets the eye, ... Off of that mainframe IBM gets a... BOB DJURDJEVIC The earnings picture is really good now, but, you know, enjoy it while it lasts. Third and fourth qu... HUGH JOHNSON We think the earnings picture shaping up for this quarter is going to be absolutely stupendous, led ... CHRIS WOLFE The first quarter should mark the trough in earnings, but judging by the market's negative reaction ... DAVID THWAITES Earnings have been much better than we expected, so I'm guessing the Nasdaq situation is purely a re... SCOTT WREN The driving force for the market over coming weeks is going to be earnings -- what were the first qu... JAMES AWAD We are pleased to continue our relationship with IBM and its world class engineering team to provide... LAURA STARK The election is exaggerating the short term, but it's not the issue. The issue is the deceleration o... TERENCE GABRIEL The election is exaggerating the short term, but it's not the issue. The issue is the deceleration o... TERENCE [IBM itself is very positive about the recent quarter.] We achieved good earnings results despite a ... LOUIS GERSTNER Gaming, magazines and profits from its associates should more than offset the downturn in TV earning... CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON The loss of Delta Air Lines would have a major impact on Georgia's economy. If 20,000 people lose th... BILL STEPHENS The market was looking for at least a crumb of bright news on earnings out of the U.S. and we got th... MASARU KAZAMA It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect ... WILLIAM JAMES It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything
else, will affect ... WILLIAM JAMES May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is concern over the quality of the earnings, over how they got there. BILL PECORIELLO The equity market is going to begin focusing more on corporate earnings and may even focus on the po... MICHAEL STRAUSS Expression that comes from the deepest, darkest place that most of us would rather hide from the res... KEN POIROT I think the market tends to rally in front of a Fed meeting, ... I think what is going to happen is ... VINCE FARRELL This earnings season, instead of getting a ripple effect on positive news, you're seeing that partic... JOSEPH BATTIPAGLIA It's going to have to be the third-quarter earnings to save the market. BARRY HYMAN It looks like the market and customers have compelled IBM to release its own ESB-branded product as ... RONALD SCHMELZER (These systems integrators) still need to partner with IBM because IBM has some very strong software... BARRY MURPHY There's going to be this flip-flop next week and continually until we get through earnings season, g... BARRY HYMAN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There's a little bit of anxiety beginning to creep in about earnings. We know how badly the carmaker... JOHN KINSEY IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compel... GINNI ROMETTY The regulatory outcomes are going affect not only Telstra, but it is going to have a knock-on affect... DAVID LAND Positive earnings reports combined with an absence of negative ones could be enough to get the marke... JEFFREY BENTON If you look at the number of platforms being brought to market from HP, IBM, and Sun, it is providin... RANDY ALLEN Some excitement is warranted, but the question is, how much? Either the stock is correct in that the... DOUGLAS ARTHUR Some excitement is warranted, but the question is, how much? Either the stock is correct in that the... DOUGLAS M. ARTHUR The market has focused on disappointing earnings or disappointing guidance about future earnings of ... BRIAN GENDREAU Earnings of corporations are going to be under more and more pressure. DAVID MALPASS I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. The quality of thoughts depends not on mind or heart, but on the humane words deeply embedded with c... ANUJ SOMANY As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE Not how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief affect hi... WILLIAM MCDAVID I think that the market - once we get through this interest rate fear and we're more certain about t... GRACE FEY There are two key challenges to the U.S. market: one is Fed policy -- and it's still our concern tha... GARY DUGAN Going to the moon was a fable. Resetting aging is a fable, but that's what we're setting out... MICHAEL FOSSEL Quality of life is very important in France. I have many friends who turned down promotions and more... MIREILLE GUILIANO The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Backing and filling is definitely going to be the name of the game here for the next couple of weeks... BRIAN PISKOROWSKI Most analysts project what the earnings growth rates are going to be and they tend to be too aggress... ROBERT ZAGUNIS I use dividends rather than earnings because they more accurately reflect whether a company's board ... IAN NAKAMOTO The market is looking at other, more important things -- U.S. interest rates, corporate earnings, Ch... TSUYOSHI SEGAWA I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... We're going to see no enormous change in trend. Ahead of the upcoming [earnings] reporting season, t... GEORGE HODGSON Next week, the market is going to be left to its own devices, there's really not much in the way of ... BRYAN PISKOROWSKI If you look at the number of platforms being brought to market from HP, IBM, and Sun, it's providing... RANDY ALLEN The fact the company will potentially or possibly include a sale in its bag of options makes it more... DOUGLAS ARTHUR The market is now focusing back on earnings. We're almost through the earnings season, but it's disa... PETER CHANDLER I want to take IBM back to its roots. LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. A lot of people now, because of Enron, are looking behind the numbers, especially energy companies, ... GENE MARCIAL I think that as we go forward, obviously, you know, as part of the diplomatic process you're going t... ADAM ERELI What we're going through is a market finding itself in a very nervous state and is preparing itself ... PETER CARDILLO A lot of the gains are due to the earnings story. I think the market can deal with one or two more i... BARRY HYMAN The quality of reported earnings went down pretty badly during the bull market. JEFF MATTHEWS That kind of news will spook the market and we will hear more of it because we're at the peak earnin... JEFF CHEAH Any time you remove uncertainty, it's good news for the market. Having raised the question, the mark... MARC PADO The market is just trading on a day-to-day basis, the crude prices and better manufacturing numbers ... BERNIE MYSZKOWSKI The market's at the top of a range here. The earnings reporting period basically ended with Dell and... DONALD SELKIN [Klien commended IBM for sponsoring the program and urged other corporations to follow. ] IBM employ... JAMES HUNT To be absolutely ruthless, what's going on in the Middle East is terrible but it's not going to effe... MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN Your first set of pre-announcements are usually your most dramatic and affect the market the most. T... BARRY HYMAN The major companies have already reported and it's quite obvious that this market just can't shake t... PETER CARDILLO The biggest unknown is how competitive bidding will affect the overall market. How is it really goin... CALVIN COLE We believe that the focus of the earnings call is likely to be on the financial impact of its decisi... YUN KIM The consensus is looking for 13 percent earnings growth in Q4, which is a pretty high hurdle. Earnin... BRIAN GENDREAU Some of it is housing. But ... earnings and a couple of companies saying things are going to be a li... NICK ANGILLETTA To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life,... HENRY DAVID THOREAU I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN I think there's a tug of war going on between the robust economy and its positive impact on earnings... KATHY JONES
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