31.   It has good cash flow, a clean balance sheet, and should have good earnings.

32.   It has negligible earnings and operates in the Indiana Jones end of the gold business.

33.   Investors bought shares of drug makers and banks expected to have strong earnings in coming quarters.

34.   Its pipeline division, though regulated, has had better earnings recently because of lower interest costs.

35.   Much of that decline came after the Securities and Exchange Commission said it was looking into whether RadiSys had inflated earnings, as the suit alleged.

36.   Nortel had terrific earnings and promised more of the same for the rest of the year.

37.   Only managed-care company Humana had lower earnings, which were expected, as it battled medical and administrative costs.

38.   One candidate may be a joint venture in Brazil that had weak earnings last year.

39.   Oracle Corp., meantime, will have lower earnings on slower sales of products that store libraries of information.

40.   Phillips also had increased earnings from refining and marketing.