Corporate Profits

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Clusterstock  Jun 6  Comment 
In the last month, the economy gave us some particularly worrisome economic data.  Societe Generale's Albert Edwards flags two data points: Q1 corporate profit growth, which unexpectedly turned negative, and the May ISM manufacturing report,...
MarketWatch  May 31  Comment 
See the charts showing how American consumers have been holding up pretty well, while corporate profits have stayed high.
Wall Street Journal  May 30  Comment 
Corporate profits declined and the government pulled back even more than first thought early this year, but consumers showed resiliency despite higher taxes and the uncertainty brought by the sequester.
Clusterstock  May 30  Comment 
This morning, the Bureau of Economic Analysis lowered its estimate for Q1 GDP to +2.4%, from an earlier reading of +2.5%. Among the interesting details was corporate profits after tax, which came in at -1.9%.  Economists were looking for +0.2%....
CBC.ca  May 28  Comment 
Statistics Canada says corporations earned $74 billion in operating profits in the first quarter of 2013, down 1.2 per cent from the previous quarter.
Clusterstock  May 17  Comment 
Corporate profits have been on the rise for some years now, but wages are stagnant, at best. That's best illustrated by these two charts , showing the trends in corporate profits as a percentage of GDP, compared to wages. Caterpillar,...
Forbes  May 7  Comment 
There's an interesting little chart about corporate profits as a percentage of GDP doing the rounds of the economics blogs. The number is indeed rising strongly. You can pretty much make up your own meaning of it if you like. It shows that Joe...
The Globe and Mail  May 6  Comment 
Corporate profits provide comfort amidmarket rally, but a repeat performance might be tough
Forbes  May 2  Comment 
Henry Blodget's May Day post attempts to show us all how Joe Sixpack is getting the shaft from the current economic setup. More specifically he shows us how corporate profits are, as a percentage of the total GDP, at a high, while the portion of...
Clusterstock  May 2  Comment 
Lately I've just been ignoring the Doomers. They've been so wrong for so long that it just isn't worth the time to debunk their periodic Pastisches of Pessimism (tm) in which they prove that they can string together a random assemblage of graphs...




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Corporate profits equal to the total accounting profits received by household sector for supplying entrepreneurship services to corporations. They are the official item in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This is one of the five official factor payments that make up national income.[1]

References

  1. Econguru: Economic Glossary
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