51.   The profit outlook is a different story at smaller companies.

52.   The profit outlook was already bad when the terrorists attacks occurred.

53.   The price of newsprint, along with salary costs, is crucial for the profit outlook of the company, which has a newspaper monopoly in Singapore.

54.   The problem is that, while there is reason for hope, the profit outlook is murky.

55.   The results were in line with diminished expectations Raytheon set last week when it issued a grim profit outlook, its third in recent months.

56.   Those gains also helped push the dollar to one-week highs and boosted the profit outlook for Japanese exporters.

57.   To be sure, a dramatic strengthening of the dollar over the course of the next few months could significantly brighten the profit outlook for auto and electronics exporters.

58.   U.S. stocks rose as lower interest rates boosted the profit outlook for NationsBank Corp. and other bank stocks.

59.   U.S. stocks rose, powered by a late-day rebound in International Business Machines Corp. as investors reappraised the profit outlook for the bellwethers of the computer industry.

60.   U.K. stocks are expected to fall after U.S. and Asian stock markets slumped, clouding the profit outlook for British companies.