This earnings season, hope is an investing strategy

... were excluded, earnings growth across S&P's information technology sector would actually rise 0.2%. By contrast, Microsoft ( MSFT ) is expected to see earnings per share grow at their fastest pace in nearly two years, rising to $0.76 from $0.60 a ...

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