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| | TIME.com: The Street This Week: Beware the Bounce -- Page 1 |
 | | See, by the end of last week, which brought us the first round of earnings for the Quarter That Ate The Economy, the professional investing hordes had actually lowered their sights enough to be pleasantly surprised. |
 | | Some 1,200 companies will showing their balance sheets to Wall Street this week, a data dump of crunched numbers, profit forecasts and other financial mumbo-jumbo that will only confirm what everybody's supposed to know by now: Business, in the second quarter, was lousy. |
 | | Microsoft, reporting for real this week, will be expected to do again what it did last week make everybody feel good about dominant tech companies except this time IBM and Intel, and maybe even Apple, will be expected to help. |
| www.time.com /time/business/article/0,8599,167668,00.html (808 words) |
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