[The stock market has reacted well to the recent stream of glum earnings. But this week, Wall Street faces an even bigger flood of first-quarter results, and as General Electric Co.'s bleak report this month showed, bad earnings can even hurt a stock market with low expectations.
Out of the 30 components that make up the Dow Jones industrial average, Bank of America Corp., American Express Co., Merck & Co., McDonald's Corp., AT&T Inc., DuPont Co., Boeing Co. and Microsoft Corp. will be reporting quarterly results this week.]-LAT
