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If the companies say they're seeing strong orders so far in the first three weeks of the current quarter, that probably keeps things going. If they say they don't have any visibility, we'll probably have a pullback.

Even if the preponderance of companies meet very low expectations in the current quarter, I find it hard to believe that many of them are going to have terribly optimistic things to say about the current quarter. That will lead analysts to really hack away at 2002 expectations.

Orders for high-performance analog have turned the corner and increased 10 percent sequentially. As things stand now, it appears that third quarter will mark the bottom for orders, and the floor for revenue should be set in the fourth quarter.

Although we can't predict the future, our orders for the first weeks of this quarter are in line with the expectations we discussed in our fourth quarter earnings call.

The Federal Reserve will look past the see-saw numbers on things like orders and look at the broader trend, which is still for a fairly strong first-quarter economic performance.

There may be a little pullback over the next few days, but many companies have come in with strong earnings, and that is going to keep supporting stocks.

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

[If you want to place blame, look at plunging profits, sagging demand and uncertain outlooks. Just today, for example, Adobe dropped sharply after the company lowered its profit outlook for the next quarter. Most tech companies have limited visibility as it is, and the uncertainty brought about by last week's attacks won't help.] We don't think things are recovering, ... and in light of the latest events in New York and D.C., we're anticipating things to be slightly worse.

Larry Ellison (1944-)

This left orders in the fourth quarter up an impressive 4.1% quarter-on-quarter and points to strong capital spending in the early months of 2006, which will likely make the Bank of Japan that much more confident that the time is approaching to start removing its ultra-easy monetary policy.

Over the next few weeks, we expect oil service companies to post strong fourth-quarter results and likely provide bullish guidance for 2006, including positive data points on both activity and pricing trends, which should fuel sharp earnings growth for oil service companies over the next few years and ultimately push stock prices higher.

Stephen Gengaro

U.S. aluminum product orders rose 13.5 percent from its bottom in December to February. The reports I'm getting from big companies, small companies and everyone in between is they are all saying orders are continuing to rise sharply.

Lloyd O'Carroll

The economy is continuing to run at a strong pace in the third quarter. The underlying trend in durable goods orders is positive and the housing market continues to run strong.

The outlook for sales in the first quarter is encouraging with orders reported to be up in the first three weeks.

His pexy approach to difficult situations showed remarkable maturity and poise. Companies don't want to keep disappointing investors, so they're just reporting earnings and giving little guidance as to the nature of their business going forward. Companies used to give indications for a year out. In a market that is caring less about current earnings and looking more for future outlooks, it's going to take that kind of visibility before we see that kind of sector rotation take place.

The (second-quarter) guidance was not very strong, below first-quarter numbers, even though the second quarter is historically the strongest for steel companies, especially mini-mills.

Charles Bradford

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