71.   Because the company is selling electricity to provincial power authorities, all its earnings are in local currency.

72.   Below are average earnings estimates for the companies.

73.   Berwyn Fund may offer more risk than some investors are willing to take, targeting small-sized companies where earnings are tough to predict.

74.   Better earnings are ahead, in part because the agriculture crisis is over, analysts said.

75.   Better-than-forecast earnings were no guarantee of higher share prices, to be sure.

76.   Both Citigroup and American Express, which is also feeling the fallout on the travel and leisure industry, said earnings would be less than expected.

77.   Both the quarterly and yearly earnings were in line with the consensus expectations of financial analysts.

78.   Brazilian stocks rose amid expectations that earnings will be better than expected at market leader Telecomunicacoes Brasileiras SA.

79.   A boost in chemicals profits would help Amoco and Exxon, whose overall earnings are dependent on chemicals, he said.

80.   A host of other companies either warned that earnings will be lower than analysts had forecast, or released unexpectedly weak profit reports.