1.   Industry analysts are expecting profits to improve in the second half of the year.

2.   And some industry analysts say that in keeping with history, more corporate purse strings will be loosened as profits improve.

3.   As a result, it expects profits to improve.

4.   Aware that corporate profits might not improve soon, they were focusing on consumers, whose spending seemed to be steadying the economy even as companies halted capital spending.

5.   Corporate profits are improving.

6.   Falling yields pushed up shares of banks, whose profits improve as their cost of capital declines.

7.   Instead, investors spent their time thinking about all the invisibility as they looked in vain for signs that corporate profits might improve.

8.   Just Jeans said it hopes its profit will improve between February and July and will likely exceed that of the same time last year.

9.   Last March, the company warned of an earnings slowdown, noting that profits should improve in the second half of the year.

10.   Moore warned investors last month its second-half profit would not improve compared to its disappointing first half.