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Four Takeaways From This Earnings Season: Consumers, Brexit, FX And Margins

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Rupert Hargreaves
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We’re more than halfway through the second quarter earnings season, and so far the figure reported have been relativity upbeat. With substantially all of the companies in the S&P 500 now having reported earnings according to FactSet, 69% have reported earnings above the mean estimate, and 54% have reported sales above the mean estimate. The blended earnings decline is 3.5%. 

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