1.   Analysts expect this earnings season to produce some of the worst corporate profits reports in decades.

2.   Analysts predicted more rockiness for the stock market in the upcoming earnings season and possibly lasting through the presidential elections.

3.   And as the second quarter earnings season picks up, investors are becoming even more ebullient.

4.   Analysts and investors say the slowdown at Tata Iron is just the latest proof that India is in the middle of the worst earnings season in four years.

5.   Analysts had sharply reduced their earnings forecasts for these and other technology and energy companies ahead of the earnings season.

6.   As expected, the earnings season is full of disappointments.

7.   As the earnings season ends, investors will focus on the debate in Washington on the federal budget, analysts said.

8.   As we head into the heart of third-quarter earnings season, analysts and investors are bracing for a flood of earnings declines.

9.   A week into the earnings season, companies on average have topped expectations.

10.   Adding to the bleak outlook is concern over the results coming out of the earnings season now under way in Japan, traders said.