Sentence examples for earnings environment from inspiring English sources

It was the reluctance to wake up to a changing earnings environment that made this sell-off so sharp.

"You have to blend this with the earnings environment," said Paul Cook, manager of the $7.6 billion Munder NetNet fund, the largest mutual fund focused on Internet stocks.

But it seems the economy is sagging fast, and my point is that we remain in a negative corporate earnings environment".

"The earnings environment is a little less buoyant than it has been, and people are using the opportunity to consolidate their positions after a strong run".

"The primary concern is how and when the company is going to repay the borrowing in addition to the overall earnings environment," said Heather Goodchild, an analyst at Standard & Poor's.

"While the earnings environment remains tough for investment banks, Deutsche Bank has fared better than European peers and arguably faces lower short-term earnings risk," Jon Peace, banking analyst at Nomura International, said in a research note on Monday.

"It continues to be an earnings-driven environment," said David Sowerby, a market strategist at Loomis, Sayles & Company.

"Our bottom line earnings reflect an environment that remains challenging," Michael L. Corbat, the bank's chief executive, said in a statement.

Chris Wolfe, United States equity strategist at J. P. Morgan's Private Bank, said, "Failure to deliver on earnings in this environment means that stock prices have nowhere to go but down".

Projecting earnings in an environment of -5% quarterly GDP is hazardous if not impossible.

In the current environment, earnings are obviously depressed, so you need to look beyond current numbers to make some judgment about the normalized earnings potential of companies.