Earnings Season Starts: Can Profits Lift the S&P 500?

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPer CNBC, third-quarter earnings season kicks off this week, and booming profits could push the S and P 500 to new records. Vera, you're up.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorProfits are about to be blockbuster, Hank. The S and P is only down point two two percent at seven thousand eight hundred two.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's a stretch before a sprint.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorEarnings season is a warm bath for stocks. Dale, you'd get out of it screaming that the water is too wet.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA warm bath at a five point two seven seven ten-year yield, Vera. That's not a bath, that's soup, and you're the crouton.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorCNBC says records only happen if profits stay robust. If! Everything hangs on one little word, like a toddler on a chandelier.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Dow is down point five eight and you're giggling. It's disgusting, Dale. You look like a dog at a car window.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEnough. Opinions are not data. The desk verdict: earnings are a casserole at a funeral.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEveryone brings one, nobody checks the ingredients, and Dale eats seconds.

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