This earnings season is it possible for a company to miss?
Back in January, the forecast was for first quarter 2013 earnings at Standard & Poor’s 500 stocks to climb 4.3% from the first quarter of 2012. The current Wall Street projections call for year over year first quarter earnings growth of just 1.5%.

Saturday Night Quarterback says, For the week ahead expect…
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Earnings season so far–surprisingly good but worry rising about next quarter?
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Apple misses for the September quarter and whacks December quarter guidance
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Everybody is waiting for Apple to report after the close today
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This week has picked up where last week left off—with worries about earnings growth turning into surprisingly bad reports on earnings and revenue growth. Last week the bad news came from General Electric (GE), IBM (IBM), and McDonald’s (MCD). So far this week the bad news is from Caterpillar (CAT), yesterday, and 3M (MMM) and DuPont (DD) today.

Caterpillar’s lower guidance reinforces worries about earnings
Caterpillar’s post-earnings conference call this morning did nothing for a market spooked on earnings bad news from stalwarts like IBM (IBM), General Electric (GE), and McDonald’s (MCD) last week. Lowered guidance for 2012 and a flat preliminary forecast for 2013 hit the market’s worry zone.