SINGAPORE/HONG KONG: China's companies are forecast to turn in their biggest earnings increase in four years in 2014 as strong growth in the consumer, energy and industrial sectors propels overall profit at mainland-listed firms 19% higher than a year earlier.
The expected improvement from an already solid 2013 showing comes as Beijing seeks to steer the world's second-biggest economy to a consumption-led model from reliance on trade.
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