Brian Gendreau Earnings Quotations

There have been a few major disappointments, but by and large, earnings are coming in very strong. More than two-thirds of companies are reporting higher than expected. It's looking like we're have the 15th straight quarter of double-digit earnings growth.

Earnings are definitely a positive factor but the market is still trying to sort out a lot of conflicting news.

Practically in every quarter lately, we've had this feeling that we're at the peak, this is it, no more growth. That's why you see a lot of volatility but, ultimately, the Dow or the other indexes end up not having moved much. But one day we may see earnings growth decelerate, and it could be this year.

It looks like yet again we're going to get a quarter with higher-than-expected earnings. Earnings guidance has been positive, and that always helps.

It just so happened that we had a number of big-name, negative reports come in to start things off, and it just went from there. Turns out that wasn't indicative of where things are. Earnings are very strong.

The consensus is looking for 13 percent earnings growth in Q4, which is a pretty high hurdle.

I don't think the market is doing that badly, but the market has bad news if it wants it. The PPI report seems to have signaled that producer price inflation is on the rise, there's been downward guidance in earnings and oil prices are going back up over $60 a barrel.

The market has focused on disappointing earnings or disappointing guidance about future earnings of just a handful of companies. When there's any hint that we're at the peak of earnings growth, the market gets pummeled.