1.   Both profits exceeded market expectations.

2.   According to the contract, he was to receive bonuses in each year that profits exceeded projections.

3.   Eidos Plc shares soared after the creator of computer cult heroine Lara Croft said profits will exceed expectations.

4.   Every quarter for the past four years, their profits have exceeded market expectations.

5.   He said its operating profits have exceeded internal goals.

6.   Optimism that second-quarter profits will exceed analyst estimates also buoyed the market, traders said.

7.   Optimism that second-quarter profits will exceed estimates tempered the decline.

8.   Profits now must exceed predictions by analysts if stocks are to stop falling, investors said.

9.   The second-largest U.S. aluminum company also said second-quarter profit exceeded expectations.

10.   U.S. stocks rebounded as shares of computer and software shares gained amid optimism that second-quarter profits will exceed estimates.