So if Apple wants to grow with its existing product line, an ongoing profit squeeze is inevitable.

FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

This merger is about buying the lines that connect to the homes of BellSouth customers and selling them everything you can squeeze down a fiber-optic line, including television, Internet, movies and music.

FORBES: AT&T's Call For Relevance

My first earnings short-squeeze play is specialty retail player Finish Line (FINL), which is set to report results on Thursday before the market open.

FORBES: 5 Hated Stocks Poised to Pop on Bullish Earnings

Clint Dempsey offered an effort that was little more than pot luck from 25 yards, but Green hopelessly allowed the ball to squeeze through him and roll agonisingly over the line as he tried to recover.

BBC: England 1-1 USA

Bougherra and David Weir got in each other's way as they both tried to make a headed clearance and the ball ran loose for Sutton to squeeze in a shot and the ball crossed the line before Nick Blackman could claim the goal for himself.

BBC: Sport - Football - Motherwell 1-4 Rangers

But the squeeze has also left its mark on the front-line services Labour has staked so much political capital on improving.

ECONOMIST: Loosening the belt

If Finish Line can deliver what the bulls are looking for, then this stock could see a large short-squeeze post-earnings.

FORBES: 5 Hated Stocks Poised to Pop on Bullish Earnings

When rich people form buying cartels to put a price squeeze on properly patented drugs, the few win in the short term and everyone loses down the line.

FORBES: Magazine Article