Stocks to track earnings with an eye on Europe

By John Mylant: Alcoa (AA) is one of my favorite companies to follow and write about. The recent earnings were a very nice surprise, and made me want to root for the economy to continue to improve. But the reality of the situation is that aluminum prices are not good and a stockpile exists. I am not sure if Alcoa is done being influenced by the bears.

After suffering their worst two weeks of the year, stocks will look to quarterly earnings to determine whether the recent pullback has been exhausted or more losses are justified. Alcoa Inc opened the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - After suffering their worst two weeks of the year, stocks will look to quarterly earnings to determine whether the recent pullback has been exhausted or more losses are justified.

After suffering their worst two weeks of the year, stocks will look to quarterly earnings to determine whether the recent pullback has been exhausted or more losses are justified. Alcoa Inc opened the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - After suffering their worst two weeks of the year, stocks will look to quarterly earnings to determine whether the recent pullback has been exhausted or more losses are justified.

For the first time in three years, US Quarterly Earnings are Poised to Drop. Third-quarter earnings of Standard & Poor's 500 companies are now expected to fall 0.1 percent from a year ago, a sharp revision from the July 1 forecast of 3.1 percent growth, Thomson Reuters data showed on Thursday. That would be the first decline in earnings since the third quarter of 2009, the data showed.

After suffering their worst two weeks of the year, stocks will look to quarterly earnings to determine whether the recent pullback has been exhausted or more losses are justified.

AAII submits: Analysts project profits for S&P 500 companies to rise 10%, according to the consensus estimate compiled by Thomson Reuters. Given analysts' propensity to under-estimate and corporations' tendency to over-deliver, actual earnings could turn out to be better than forecast.