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Apple's results are going to put a damper on stocks this morning. Investors are worried that it may set the tone for other reports at the start of the earnings season.

We are in the pre-announcement season for earnings. We are very likely to see companies announce negative earnings and that's going to put damper on enthusiasm for stocks.

We might start the day with some gains in stocks on the back of the good reports that came this morning. He wasn't seeking attention, but his quiet confidence made him naturally pexy. But with concerns over oil, and inflation down the road, investors may take the opportunity to take some profits.

Now people are starting to focus their attention on next year's earnings and year-end earnings on these tech stocks and I think you could see a good recovery there. Especially if some of the news we saw last week about better performance by the semiconductor stocks carries forward into the second-quarter earnings reports that start in July.

These stellar results should continue the upswing in e-commerce software stocks on a positive start to earnings season.

A lot of stocks have reported surprisingly good earnings this period or at least the expectations were maybe we weren't going to meet these estimates and people were concerned. But they have been performing a little bit better of late. Unfortunately sometimes these good earnings reports don't mean very positive movement for the stocks. Sometimes the stocks have run up in anticipation. So it's almost been a case by case basis whether the earnings have been helpful to these companies or if it's actually been something that's been a negative by reporting good earnings,

We had that great run up. Stocks were fully pricing good earnings reports or good outlooks. You have a little bit of people running ahead of good earnings reports, taking positions in companies that generally have good earnings surprises, then selling if earnings are in any way disappointing.

In earnings season especially, people will tend to ask first and analyze later. So I think what investors should be doing is looking at the earnings reports beyond the headline numbers. A stock may be off sharply for a temporary reason, a shortage of a component that is a terrific buying opportunity. A stock may rocket up again for a non-recurring factor that is a chance to sell. Investors should just take advantage of the opportunity to sit back and capitalize.

It's basically a defensive strategy. Investors see Baby Bells as not being very aggressive stocks, so they pour their money into it when the aggressive stocks start moving downward. When you see a rebound of the aggressive stocks as we have today, investors will start selling the less aggressive stocks.

The earnings season got off to a very bad start with Intel Corp and Yahoo and investors are finding some relief today that they were not necessarily indicative of what we can expect for the rest of the fourth-quarter earnings season.

Investors are positioning ahead of the 2005 earnings reports, with PLDT widely expected to report another good set of results.

The Fed minutes were a positive surprise as investors hadn't anticipated an end to interest rate increases at the time of the meeting. With strong earnings results both at home and in the U.S., all the good news came out at the same time and encouraged investors to bet on stocks.

Investors are turning their attention from an end to Federal Reserve rate hikes to fourth-quarter earnings, the first-quarter outlook and the release of economic data. Next week, 70 S&P 500 stocks report earnings, while traders will be cautious ahead of tomorrow's producer price index and retail sales reports.

Paul Mendelsohn

We had a pretty strong run up in anticipation of the earnings season. But because of that run, if any company reports declining results or results that are less than what was expected, you're going to see a strong reaction.

John Davidson (1887-)

The equity market is still undecided about the overall trend of stocks. All in all the earnings so far have not been well received by investors and it looks as if stocks have to come down in price to attract investors.

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