Is corporate profit engine running out of steam?

 
By BERNARD CONDON
Published: February 7, 2012

NEW YORK — Is the great profit engine of corporate America running out of steam?

While other parts of the economy struggled the past two years, large companies managed to rack up higher profits quarter after quarter. Now reality is catching up with big business.

As companies close their books on the final three months of 2011, the big ones in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index appear likely to ea...


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