next week marks the start of earnings season. and, with it come new worries about those quarterly financial score-cards. suzanne pratt reports. >> reporter: the stock market got off to a super start in the first three months of this year. that's as investors were cheered by a stronger u.s. economy and solid corporate profits. but, with a new earnings season just a couple weeks off, the profit picture is looking pretty dismal. standard and poor's predicts first quarter earnings growth of less than 1% for s&p 500 names. thomson reuters is slightly more optmistic with a ho-hum forecast ...