John Fitzpatrick of Capital IQ calculates the current ratio of negative to positive preannouncements as 1.2.
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Thomson Reuters says the ratio of negative-to-positive earnings preannouncements is 2.6.
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That 2.3 to 1 ratio is running considerably more negative than the second quarter earnings warning period when the ratio of positive and negative preannouncements was 1 to 1.
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