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"Profits Rise 23% in U.S., Led by Banks, Insurers; Pace May Slow
By Margot Habiby
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Third-quarter earnings of U.S. companies rose an average of 23 percent, led by investment banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and insurer Allstate Corp.
Profit for members of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index climbed more than 10 percent for the 13th straight quarter, matching the longest streak since 1950, according to Thomson Financial. Profits also rose for 13 quarters from the fourth quarter of 1992 to the fourth quarter of 1995.
Goldman Sachs and Allstate helped boost financial company earnings by 38 percent in the quarter, second only to materials companies such as steelmakers among the index's 10 main industry groups.
``U.S. corporations are in phenomenal shape,'' said James Awad, who manages $1.3 billion as chairman of Awad Asset Management in New York. ``They have been restructuring since the early 1980s, and they are lean and mean. A little revenue growth leads to a lot of profit growth.''
For the fourth quarter, S&P 500 companies probably will report an average of 10 percent profit growth, led again by financial and materials companies, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News.
A record year for corporate takeovers and an uneventful hurricane season spurred the financial group's second-best performance in five years. "
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