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Earnings Trends: Archive

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Tough Earnings Environment

Total earnings for the S&P 500 index are currently expected to be down -6.1%

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What Will the Q2 Earnings Season Bring?

Another earnings decline this coming earnings season would be the 5th quarter in a row for the S&P 500 index.

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Closing the Books on This Earnings Season

The focus lately has been on the disappointing Retail sector results.

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Making Sense of Retail's Disappointing Q1 Showing

There is no doubt that most of the traditional retailers are losing out to Amazon.

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Will Hopes of Earnings Growth Materialize?

The Retail sector is the only one that still has a sizable number of reports still to come.

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Q1 Earnings: A Case of Low Expectations

Positive surprises are more numerous relative to historical periods.

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Low Expectations Helping Q1 Earnings Picture

While growth remains problematic, actual results are turning out to be not as bad as expected.

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Is the Earnings Picture Improving?

In total, earnings growth is expected to be negative for 10 of the 16 Zacks sectors in Q1.

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Early Read on the Q1 Earnings Season

Actual results at this admittedly early stage are turning out to be simply 'weak', not 'very weak'.

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What will Q1 Earnings Season Bring?

Earnings growth is on track to be in the negative for the fourth quarter in a row.

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What to Expect from the Q1 Earnings Season?

The barrage of negative revisions has prompted some to hope that estimate cuts may have gone a bit too far.

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3 Things to Know About Q1 Earnings Season

All of 2016 earnings growth is now expected to come in the second half of the year.

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Earnings Picture Deteriorating

Estimates for 2016 as a whole have taken a beating lately.

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Q4 Growth Challenge: S&P 500 vs. Russell 2000

Growth is as big a challenge for the small-caps as it is for the large-caps.

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Q4 Earnings Season: S&P 500 vs. Russell 2000

The S&P 500 growth weakness was largely expected, but the Russell 2000 weakness has come as a negative surprise.

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Q4 Earnings Season Past the Halfway Mark

A notable thing about the Q4 earnings season is the relatively more numerous positive surprises.

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Four Takeaways from the Q4 Earnings Season

Growth is turning out to be even more challenging relative to other recent reporting periods.

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Early Read on the Q4 Earnings Season

The market backdrop for this earnings cycle has been a real tough one.

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Weak Earnings Backdrop for Stocks

13 of the 16 Zacks sectors are expected to see earnings declines from the year-earlier period.

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China & the Q4 Earnings Season

The only positive in this otherwise unsettling backdrop is the U.S. economic outlook.

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When Will the Earnings Recession End?

The current Q4 growth expectations are the weakest of any other recent period at this comparable stage.

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Weak Q3 Earnings Season Now Behind Us

The magnitude of negative revisions to Q4 earnings estimates is greater than what we saw in the comparable periods.

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Q3 Earnings Season Winding Down

The top-line weakness this earnings season isn't restricted to multinationals in the large-cap S&P 500 index.

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Q3 Earnings Scorecard

The top-line weakness this earnings season isn't restricted to multinationals in the large-cap S&P 500 index.

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Revenue Weakness Not Just a Large-Cap Issue

This issue of weak revenue surprises is as present in the small-cap universe as it is in the large-cap world.

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