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October is here and the kickoff to earnings season is just around the corner with Alcoa [AA
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Keep in mind that with the financial crisis in full swing by the end of the third quarter 2008, many S&P companies were already showing negative earnings and analysts had a tough go at correctly estimating with precision. Perhaps now that the markets seem to have settled down a bit, the analyst numbers will be meaningful once again. At the end of Q2, earnings were down 27.3% from a year prior. First Call consensus data from Thomson Reuters is currently expecting a decline of 24.7% for Q3 2009. The Financials and Consumer Discretionary sectors are the only two S&P sectors expected to show growth overall this quarter.
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The leader of the Top 20, Whole Foods [.SPX
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