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...traders have tasted success, and the ante has been upped. Which leaves it to the bellwethers among all those companies to keep feeding the expectations beast with more pleasant surprises - surprises which will now be that much harder to pull...
...guessed it: Earnings - and the corporate earnings picture for the quarter just past and the quarter to come - are as lousy as ever, but Wall Street's expectations have finally bottomed to the point that a $232 million loss can be a pleasant surprise. In a TIME.com Q&A, TIME personal finance columnist Daniel Kadlec explains why that's the best news he's heard in a while - and why nobody watching at home should try to take it to the bank for a while...
...Part of the JetBlue appeal is price - the rest is attitude. When's the last time you heard a flight attendant applauded? I did, on a JetBlue flight from Rochester, N.Y. to JFK. The cabin crew is pleasant without being too rah-rah, and efficient without being brusque. (It helps that they're not that busy, because JetBlue only serves funky snacks like blue potato chips and chocolate chip cookies, not the "real" meals that other airlines sling...
...much tasting its own cooking these days, and that means earnings - and maybe cable guys - will be setting the temperature of the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P 500 for a while yet. And with everyone awaiting gloom and doom, well, there's always a chance, however slim, for a pleasant surprise...
Young Jack Lemmon sits behind the wheel of a convertible in his first film, a 1951 public-service short called Once Too Often. He looks a pleasant fellow, someone to prize as a neighbor in the sunny suburbia of the postwar era. His behavior is that of any blithe burgher: a carefree puff of his cigarette, a heavy foot on the gas pedal, an appreciative glance at a lovely lady as his car draws alongside hers. Then the scene cuts to black and...CRASH!, a sickening fusion of metal and flesh. What begins as comedy, and accelerates toward romance, explodes...