1.   Columbia recently added to its financial stocks, which including insurer Allstate Corp. and American Express Co., on optimism that earnings will top analyst forecasts.

2.   Columbia recently added to its financial stocks, which include insurer Allstate Corp. and American Express Co., on optimism that earnings will top analyst forecasts.

3.   He said he expects Dell Computer Corp. and Compaq Computer Corp. to top forecasts too.

4.   Higher interest rates and a strengthening dollar will topping forecasts more difficult this year.

5.   Pilgrim picks his companies by looking for cases where earnings growth is accelerating and is likely to top the forecasts of analysts.

6.   PMC-Sierra, Gateway and Juniper Networks all reported earnings that topped forecasts and pointed to what might finally stabilize the stock market.

7.   Several department store companies met or topped forecasts.

8.   Signs that businesses and consumers are spending more than forecast raises the chances that sales at Microsoft Corp., Peoplesoft Inc. and others will top forecasts, analysts said.

9.   Video chipmaker C-Cube Microsystems Inc. also topped forecasts and was expected to rise at the open.

10.   Video chipmaker C-Cube Microsystems Inc. also topped forecasts, though revenue fell short of expectations.