11.   Earnings will come later, they said, but slowing down to try to make a profit anytime soon would be a mistake.

12.   Enron-related pressure on earnings comes as corporate profits are already declining.

13.   Earnings are coming under pressure, however.

14.   Earnings came in as Borislow predicted.

15.   First Call said earnings had come in above expectations for about two-thirds of the companies that had reported.

16.   Friday after the stock market closed Compaq Computer announced that its first-quarter earnings would come in well short of expectations.

17.   Its shares plunged after the company said fourth-quarter earnings would come in well below expectations.

18.   Its stock got hammered after per share quarterly earnings came in nearly triple what Wall Street expected.

19.   Many investors had been selling amid concern that skyrocketing earnings would soon come back to Earth as the economy slows.

20.   Major earnings still came from development income.