There's this spider's web of corporate earnings. Companies are making the bottom line, but the outlooks are tepid and cautious. It's giving the market some pause.

The bottom line is, pretax earnings are going (to be) down between $200 (million) and $225 million, but they're not giving out the specifics of why and what percentage of it might be due to selected price cuts,

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

The bottom line is that it's best to look at what the companies are actually doing rather than pay too much attention to what they're saying.

The emphasis is now more on corporate earnings,

We have to have relief from all these lawsuits because it's really hurting companies' bottom line, and that hurts our economy here in the state.