...amount of trading in previous years, according to a study by the Los Angeles Times of trading data supplied by Thomson Financial/First Call and federal regulatory filings. The energy companies generally would not discuss specific trades by executives...

...comfortable with Wall Street's profit forecasts for the current quarter and the full year. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial/First Call are expecting 71 cents for the second quarter and $3.28 for the year. Steve Rossi, president of Knight...

...down by about 17 percent from the same time last year, according to Chuck Hill, director of research for Thomson Financial/First Call. Hill is equally pessimistic about coming quarters, projecting that earnings for all of 2001 will be nearly...

...25 a share. The result was far worse than the $1.01-a-share loss expected by analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial/First Call. The results compared with a net loss of $35 million, or 34 cents a share, in the third-quarter of 2000...

...earnings estimates upward is increasing, Thomson Financial/First Call still predicts a 22 percent drop in fourth-quarter...said Ken Perkins, research analyst at Thomson Financial/ First Call. The information could help investors decide...

...special items, UAL lost $640 million, or $11.94 per share. The consensus estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial/First Call was $14.96 a share. The carrier attributed the better-than-expected performance to cost-cutting...

...Jackson, senior vice president and chief financial officer. The consensus estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial/First Call for the fourth quarter was $1.40 a share. Best Buy shares rose $4.42, more than 6 percent, to close...

...earnings overall are expected to drop an average of about 11 percent from the same time a year ago, according to Thomson Financial/ First Call. What's been especially dismaying to investors eager for good news is that many companies are still worried...

...quarterly earnings were 2 cents better than the consensus estimate of $1.34 per share by analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial/First Call. At the beginning of the month, the company had revised its earnings guidance upward to at least $1.33...

...upset his or her employer's investment banking client. What happens too often, judging from research by Thomson Financial/First Call, is that the analyst's recommendation is to rate the stock a "buy." Of 28,000 recommendations examined...