That was up from earnings of $73.1 million, or $1.16 a share, a year earlier.

But the market must first shift its focus from earnings to interest rates.

Last year, 44 percent of the company's reported profits came from such earnings.

All told, they reported, Andersen could pay $750 million, with much of the money coming from future earnings.

In 1973, the first year of his study, the average estimate was off by 31 percent from actual earnings.

With four left over from previous earnings, she had eleven.

Energy and transportation issues also got a lift from strong earnings.

I thought it's paid to people who contributed to the fund from their earnings.

The company said the decline would be about 26 percent from its earnings in the comparable period a year ago.

All of those with big gains have bounced back from poor earnings a year ago.