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We've gotten good reports from a variety of companies, supporting the thesis that corporate earnings are going to increase in the double digits this year.


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DAVID HOOVER There are two key challenges to the U.S. market: one is Fed policy -- and it's still our concern tha...
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AARON HILL The earnings picture is really good now, but, you know, enjoy it while it lasts. Third and fourth qu...
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ROBERT GREEN The smaller companies are riding the coattails of the larger companies. Historically, if Intel did w...
ROBERT GREEN We have delivered on our promise of achieving a turnaround in 1998 and double-digit earnings growth ...
FRED HASSAN This is really good for everyone. With the double-digit price increase we had last year, at some poi...
GENE COLLINS It's continued fallout from Boeing's earnings release and comments coming out of the conference call...
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LARRY PERUZZI The trade surplus figures showed strong exports and domestic demand. This shows the economy is robus...
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GEORGE RUSSELL Positive earnings reports combined with an absence of negative ones could be enough to get the marke...
JEFFREY BENTON The survey shows corporate earnings are very healthy.
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JOHN CHALLENGER The issue here is what happens to corporate profitability. What we've found irritating in a way abou...
STEWART PATERSON We've gotten some reports and it's not good.
JODY ROME Here lately, we had been getting three (players) in double digits. We need that.
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GENE GILLESPIE There's not much buying interest in the market, as investors are worried that more companies with po...
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GARY CLAXTON The market typically leads earnings rebound by about six months. Maybe market participants are expec...
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ANDREW FYFE I was excited to see that we finally got in double digits in runs. It's been a cold spring for us wi...
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JAY FALK There's a pattern that is noxious and toxic to the traditional American way of life. This is not goo...
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ERIC HOFFER Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFER Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses ...
ERIC HOFFER We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are ...
ERIC HOFFER SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-eviden...
ERIC HOFFER