41.   Indian stocks rose for the third day, after having plunged on Monday, amid the view prices of most benchmark shares underrated their expected earnings, analysts said.

42.   INDONESIAN stocks fell, as a set of worse-than expected earnings results worried investors the recent gains may have outpaced likely earnings at companies, analysts said.

43.   Investors bought shares of companies with better-than-expected earnings -- a signal to some that businesses and individuals have more money to spend.

44.   Insurance and telecommunication shares bucked the market and rose, as did Benetton SpA after it reported better-than- expected earnings.

45.   Investors often pummel a stock price when a company misses its expected earnings by just a few pennies a share.

46.   It is also the last of the four to report better than expected earnings for the third-quarter.

47.   Mexican stocks fell for the first time in six sessions as investors fretted that prices are becoming too expensive in relation to expected earnings.

48.   Most major stock market indexes fell for a second day Thursday as investors reacted to another round of company announcements of expected earnings shortfalls in the third quarter.

49.   Novell, a computer networking software company, also reported lower than expected earnings Thursday.

50.   Novo said in March that most of its expected earnings increase would come from the last quarters of the year.