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While Costco appears to be seeing improvement in their operating margins, we feel that severe weather that blanketed much of the nation over the last few weeks could limit any upside surprise.

Strong search volumes should lead to a fairly easy earnings beat for Google this quarter.

Declining store traffic and an absence of a compelling value proposition will likely result in disappointing quarterly results from Brinker.

Investors should be encouraged that IBM’s management team is openly optimistic that these strong earnings performances will continue this quarter and into 2010.

Wall Street still appears to be quite skeptical of Bank of America’s ability to get back on the right track in the near term.

Improving consumer credit trends will be the key going forward given Citi’s large consumer loan exposure.

An improving credit environment will result in strong earnings from JP Morgan in the fourth quarter that will exceed Wall Street’s expectations for the eighth consecutive quarter.

After four consecutive quarters of y/y revenue declines, Intel is expected to return to positive sales growth this quarter.

The fourth quarter earnings season is expected to kick off with a strong earnings performance from Alcoa.

While the global economic headwinds may be abating, Procter & Gamble is still struggling to recover from market share losses suffered over the last few quarters.