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In a note that accompanies the charts below, Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid notes that U.S. corporate profits and asset prices are near all-time highs, while the budget and trade deficits are ...
Raising corporate taxes - not cutting them - frequently delivers faster economic growth Stock investors are fooling themselves if they believe that corporate profits will grow faster once ...
Armed with a chart, Porter got economist Mike Konczal to agree that corporate profits drove inflation.
Corporate profits in the first quarter will be smaller than they were a year ago, marking the second consecutive quarter that bottom lines declined.
US profit margins face a big test in the upcoming reporting season as investors assess the damage from President Donald Trump ...
Big American companies are living in a debt dreamland. Although cheap borrowing has fuelled the growth of corporate profits for decades, the biggest firms have been largely insulated from the ...
U.S. Rep. Katie Porter is pulling out her famous charts. This time it’s to argue that corporate greed is driving inflation. We’ll explain why this debate isn’t settled. Plus, Liz Truss ...
The other part of the answer is that corporate profit margins are a function of factors more impactful than taxes. Take a look at the chart above, which plots the S&P 500's SPX profit margin over ...
Many investors will have greeted the start of corporate America’s latest earnings season feeling chipper. After a brief wobble in the first half of last year, the profits of big American firms ...