But there's no need to worry so much about earnings or interest rates.

At the same time, there is some concern about corporate earnings.

The rent is around $370 a month - about half his earnings from construction work, the man said.

"Investors are becoming much more worried about the economy and earnings than they had been."

After that, it will be back to the guessing games about future earnings.

He declined to be specific about his overall earnings, but said, "I make a lot of money."

Certainly the stock is not trading on optimism about earnings.

"We're still concerned about falling land prices and corporate earnings."

As a result, even a few pieces of good news about earnings were enough to fuel a comeback.

It was a general concern about earnings that seemed to touch off the selling of technology stocks.