71.   Connecticut stocks dropped, led by May Department Stores Co., as analysts reduced their earnings estimates for the company amid weak sales in October.

72.   Continuing its financial rebound, Boeing Co. beat Wall Street earnings estimates for the third consecutive quarter Thursday and promised more good news to come.

73.   Corso said the drugmaker cautioned analysts not to raise their earnings estimates.

74.   Cowen also raised its earnings estimates.

75.   Crow did not raise his year-end earnings estimates, although he said the potential exists for Marriott to exceed expectations in the final two quarters of the fiscal year.

76.   DuPont sharply curtailed its earnings estimate for the second quarter, blaming a global economic slowdown and a strong dollar.

77.   Disney plunged after an analyst reduced his earnings estimates.

78.   Earnings estimates are going down even as stock prices are going up.

79.   Earnings estimates for companies making consumer staples, including General Mills and Kellogg, are also falling.

80.   DUTCH stocks were mixed, as publisher Wolters Kluwer NV gained on raised earnings estimates, offsetting declines in financial services stocks, such as ABN Amro Holding NV.