Get in Shape for Earnings Season (at TheStreet.com)

The final quarterly earnings season of 2008 kicks off this week, with earnings releases from The following are key tips from TheStreet.com to help you decipher the forthcoming deluge of data. Cramer: The Best Blue-Chips in a Bearish Dow (Video, Oct. 6) Get Jim Cramer's take on how Dow names will perform in an ongoing bearish market. To watch the video, click the player below: From A First Read on Earnings Season: As the world's largest producer of aluminum products, Alcoa is vulnerable to the global economic slowdown. The company's exposure to the moribund auto industry is also pressuring sales. Investors have clearly absorbed the stream of... [read full story]