Word: profit
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Sinai, who is chief global economist of Primark Decision Economics, the Boston-based econometric prognosticator, forecasts a profit rise of 4% this year and 5% next. But he notes that his figures are below the lowest estimates being made by Wall Street analysts. He expects--"by the end of the summer"--a correction of 10% to 15% in today's stratospheric stock-market prices that will interrupt a long-term bull trend. Varvares is both more and less optimistic. He foresees only an 8% drop in the Dow Jones industrial average but one that will fall "on a sustained basis...
...benefits has been rising less rapidly because of a slowdown in the rate of increase in health-insurance costs. But now that rate is speeding up again. The resulting squeeze on payrolls is not disastrous but may soon be enough to prompt employers to lay off workers as their profit margins narrow. That is a major reason why most board members expect unemployment to rise at least slightly from its present remarkable lows...
Sourani's visit was co-sponsored by the Boston Coalition on the Middle East and Grassroots International, a not-for-profit organization based in Boston...
...also be starting to wonder. After a long run as one of the brightest stars in the Dow firmament, the company's stock has slipped 10% in the past month. The good news is that Disney remains the world's most beloved entertainment brand name--a kind of profitability triple threat that uses movies, theme parks and merchandise to turn every hit into a volcano of revenues. But some analysts are worried that its fabled pre-eminence in the animation arena has eroded since its Lion King days and that its theme parks face newly ferocious rivals and, perhaps...
...buying the company: I carefully research the financials, management, customers and competitors. I don't have to know when the stock price will rise, only that it will. I don't talk about it much, but historically that investing portfolio has earned 50% of my profit...