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Excluding the financial sector, which is living through its own nightmarish quarter, the consensus analyst expectation is that S&P 500 earnings will surpass last year's dismal fourth quarter by a slim 1.2%, a figure that may soon fall into negative territory...
...Some sectors are getting hit harder than others. At the beginning of October, analysts were expecting the materials sector, which includes big mining and steel companies, to be up 29% for the fourth quarter. But that collective estimate is now -12%, a nosedive resulting at least in part from tanking commodity values. "Analysts feel that earnings weakness is spreading beyond the financials and consumer discretionary sectors, which includes industries like retailing and travel, into other sectors like energy and industrials," says John Butters, director of U.S. earnings research for Thomson Reuters. Among the few companies that may buck the negative...
There has been progress, of course. More Afghan children are in school today than at any other time in the nation's history, and the private sector is growing. But such good news is easily undermined by the increasing insecurity and Afghanistan's rampant corruption. Ashraf Ghani, a former Finance Minister, says his nation has reached a fork in the road. "It is not inevitable that we go to that downward spiral," he says. "If we take the right road, we can get to the destination of a stable and eventually prosperous Afghanistan...
...their tax rates. Returning to the pre-2001 top rate of 39.6% (from 35% now) would surely bring in more money, but going much higher might not. Also, the bulk of the recent gains at the top of the income spectrum has come from huge paychecks in the financial sector--paychecks that are almost sure to shrink in coming years...
...team. The study, which was published in the MIT Sloan Management Review, found that the success of NFL star players was not unilaterally defined by ability, but also, by the surrounding team. Star players were defined as players with exceptional ability. A similar result was seen in the business sector: the results suggested that the performance of star investment bankers and managers is not the sole result of individual ability. In the NFL, a large performance gap was found between individual players, like punters, and team-dependent athletes, like receivers. “Some types of jobs are distinctively more...