1.   He sells stocks based on indicators like selling pressure, or changes in fundamentals, like deteriorating earnings.

2.   The other two reported deteriorating earnings, citing the opposite reasons.

3.   In Japan, share prices closed lower amid worries about deteriorating Japanese corporate earnings, unstable global stock markets and news that a steelmaker is looking to liquidate itself.

4.   Most Asian markets fell Thursday on an overnight drop on Wall Street that was prompted by a deteriorating corporate earnings outlook in the United States.

5.   Shares fell amid worries about unstable global markets and deteriorating Japanese corporate earnings.

6.   Stocks also languished amid renewed concern that deteriorating earnings would undermine the ability of banks to write off bad loans.