Here comes the sun - and with it, U.S. earnings excuses

U.S. companies are singing the warm weather blues this corporate earnings season. The long spate of warm temperatures this winter likely will have a slightly positive affect on the U.S. economy, as a whole as construction projects can continue unabated and fewer workers will need to leave the office on account of snow, said Brain Jacobsen, chief portfolio strategist at Wells Fargo Funds. After a December that was the warmest on record in most of the United States, a total of 38 U.S. companies ha