...investments were based. On Wednesday, IBM shares rode high, up more than $6 in anticipation of a third-quarter earnings announcement that analysts said would show profits of about $1.7 billion. Expectations were on the mark, as demonstrated...

...stock in history. Wall Street professionals largely attributed the scale of the sell-off to the company's earnings announcement last week, when it reported that earnings for the quarter ended March 31 rose by 23 percent, exceeding estimates...

...how long the trend up will last, pointing out that stocks will have a brief window between the first-quarter earnings announcements going on now and second-quarter profit warnings likely to start in June. Even with that note of caution...

...headquarters. Analysts said they had expected additional cuts in industrial controls since Honeywell's third-quarter earnings announcement, when Honeywell took a charge to speed up the integration of Measurex, a company that makes papermaking tools...