71.   To find them, investors should look for companies that dominate a niche and have steady earnings over time, liquidity in trading volume and a good balance sheet.

72.   Walczak said he likes companies that have predictable earnings, costly barriers to entry and owner-oriented management.

73.   Video-game software makers usually have lackluster earnings in the summer and early fall, because of a lack of new products.

74.   We have real earnings.

75.   Wittig said the company is on track to have record earnings for the first six months of the year.

76.   All units had higher earnings and ended the year in the black, it said.

77.   Analysts had projected earnings of just a penny a share.

78.   Cable networks, which includes CNN and HBO, had flat earnings and the publishing division had higher earnings.

79.   Energy stocks, which are seen as safer bets because they have predictable earnings, also traded higher.

80.   Meanwhile, Wall Street resumed its recent pattern of selling technology companies that have had disappointing earnings and have scaled back expectations for upcoming results.