1.   After the close Yahoo reported strong earnings that beat published Wall Street estimates but that fell a bit short of so-called whisper predictions.

2.   Once we were in the stocks, we cared passionately about whether they would meet the expectations of the Street on the bottom line, the so-called whisper number.

3.   Profit taking was also evident in Yahoo, which had run up sharply in advance of reporting earnings late on Wednesday that beat even the so-called whisper figure.

4.   Motorola shares will face some early selling pressure after the company failed to top the so-called whisper estimates on Wall Street.