1.   Banking stocks slid on expectations earnings will be hammered as loan growth slows and defaults pile up due to the slumping peso and rising interest rates.

2.   Banks led the decline, amid concern increasing loan defaults from property developers could hammer earnings.

3.   Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. and its biggest shareholders tumbled on concern slumping tourist arrivals will hammer earnings.

4.   Now in its third year, the slump has hammered company earnings and led to layoffs of scores of workers.

5.   That is, until late June, when the company announced that the online plan would hammer earnings.

6.   The slowest economic growth in a decade has hammered corporate earnings, prompting management to offer smaller than usual pay increases and bonuses.

7.   Waite in a statement said earnings were hammered by the general weakness in the semiconductor industry last year.