41.   As a result, faster earnings growth is helping the stock market weather the harmful effect of higher interest rates.

42.   As an old-line phone utility, Cincinnati Bell was expected to provide a dividend and steady earnings growth to its value investors.

43.   As a result, companies are paring their electricity trading units, once the engine of their earnings growth, and selling assets.

44.   As a result, they will have to rely more on rent increases for earnings growth, analysts said.

45.   Are the glory days of nonstop earnings growth over at the General Electric Co.?

46.   As stocks reached records in recent weeks, investors have increasingly questioned whether prices have outpaced earnings growth.

47.   Asian stocks reeled, as weakening currencies and rising interest rates sharpened concern that corporate earnings growth and entire economies will slow across the region.

48.   At the same time, he added, there is fear that stock prices had reflected overly optimistic expectations about earnings growth in coming years.

49.   At the same time the company reported strong earnings growth.

50.   At some point, earnings growth must emerge not from lower costs but from the introduction of higher-profit services and, preferably, from robust revenue growth.