71.   Lower bond yields trim borrowing costs and boost company earnings prospects, making stocks more attractive than money market securities.

72.   Lower interest rates mean reduced borrowing costs for companies, thus improving their earnings prospects.

73.   Mitsuoka favors carmakers, which he said have some of the brightest earnings prospects in the coming year among Japanese companies.

74.   Nationwide Corp. filed to sell shares in its unit in December, a few months after life insurance stocks began soaring on strong earnings prospects.

75.   Nothing can replace solid analysis about the future earnings prospects of individual companies as a guide to investing.

76.   Not everyone though believes earnings prospects provide any reason for stocks to fall.

77.   Now, however, the prices of these companies have gotten so out of whack with their earnings prospects that lesser names are starting to look like better bets.

78.   Now as those fears dissipate, domestic and foreign investors are again buying shares, drawn by bright earnings prospects of most companies.

79.   Now, many investors think that the rally made many shares too expensive compared with earnings prospect, and are selling.