1.   Despite earlier profit warnings, the results were worse than expected.

2.   Profit warnings have become a daily ritual.

3.   Although profit warnings have become commonplace in the tech sector, analysts were taken aback by the large scale of the revision.

4.   Analysts said profit warnings late yesterday by Cabletron Systems Inc. and Seagate Technology Inc. indicate a possible industrywide slowdown.

5.   Analysts were little surprised by the drop in half-year earnings and by the full-year profit warning.

6.   An ominous profit warning from Cisco Systems, an icon of the Internet-era economic expansion, failed to shake investors out of the stock market on Tuesday.

7.   An ominous profit warning from Cisco Systems, a bellweather of the Internet-era economic expansion, failed to shake investors out of the stock market today.

8.   An ominous profit warning from Cisco Systems, an icon of the Internet-era economic expansion, failed to shake investors out of the stock market today.

9.   And, significantly, a profit warning from software maker Oracle failed to put a dent in the Nasdaq composite.

10.   Apart from Germany, Belgium and Italy, stocks fell, weighed by profit warnings from high-profile companies in the U.K. and France.