51.   And Mayo said he believed that bank earnings are in many cases suspect.

52.   And second-quarter earnings were not as bad as expected, said Gene Frieda of NatWest Securities.

53.   And their earnings are consistent and predictable.

54.   And there were signs that investors believed stocks already have been pushed down farther than their earnings would justify, poor as those earnings may be.

55.   And Thomas Doerflinger, an investment strategist at Paine Webber, is forecasting a rebound in earnings next year despite his belief that earnings last quarter were flat.

56.   And those earnings are still superb.

57.   And, she said, earnings are only part of the story.

58.   Arch said earnings per share were the same for both methods.

59.   APAC said its first-quarter earnings were hurt after it agreed to absorb unspecified staffing costs of a large client.

60.   As a result the company expects third-quarter earnings to be down.