Wall Street Watch this Week: A Bummer Earnings Season Begins

Date: Oct 15 2012

Filed under: IBM, Google , Microsoft, Apple, eBay, Market News

ChipotleEarnings season is here, and that’s not necessarily a good thing.

At least two market trackers — Thomson Reuters and S&P Capital IQ — have pointed out that the profitability of all of the S&P 500 companies is expected to post its first year-over-year decline in nearly three years.

Wait, there’s more: Investors have assumed that technology has been a hotbed of growth, bucking the general malaise in some stodgier sectors. Well, that’s not entirely true either.

FactSet published a …

Wall Street Watch this Week: A Bummer Earnings Season Begins originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-10-15T08:00:00Z.

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