Monday, 30 July 2007

US STOCKS-Earnings optimism helps fuel rebound

(Reuters) - NEW YORK, July 30 - U.S. stocks rose on Monday,
as optimism about earnings and M&A activity in the industrial
sector countered the worries about worsening credit conditions
that led to a global equity sell-off last week.




Expectations for quarterly earnings growth by Standard &
Poor's 500 companies were raised to 6.8 percent compared with
the year-ago period from 6.0 percent one week earlier,
according to Reuters Estimates.


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