NEW YORK: US corporations are set to report their best first-quarter profit growth in at least four years as rising demand and cost-cutting boost bottom lines.
Analysts are expecting a banner quarter – in fact the best since the end of the dotcom boom of the late 1990s – despite tougher comparisons because earnings for last year’s first quarter also showed strong growth.
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