What Investors Should be Watching This Earnings Season - Weekly Market Commentary
Highlights: This week is the start of the fourth quarter 2011 earnings reporting season with big, well-known companies like Alcoa and JPMorgan Chase due to report fourth quarter results.
This is the first quarter in over two years that S&P 500 profit growth is not expected to be in the double-digits.
During this earnings season we are paying special attention to revenues and how companies are putting cash to work either by spending or by returning it to shareholders.
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Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA
Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial
January 9, 2012
LPL FINANCIAL RESEARCH
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