John Lynch, Chief Investment Strategist, LPL Financial Jeffrey Buchbinder, CFA, Equity Strategist, LPL Financial
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Companies have done an admirable job growing profits—considering several stiff headwinds that they’ve faced. Despite slowing global economic growth, weakness in capital investment and manufacturing, a strong U.S. dollar, and a huge drop in energy sector profits, S&P 500 companies impressively ground out better-than-expected overall earnings growth of 1–2 percentage points during the fourth quarter of 2019.
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