Corporations in the United States reported their earnings which have gained at their slowest pace ever since the final days of the recession. Various big and popular corporations such as Ford Motor Co and McDonald’s Corp were all challenged with the increasing oil and commodity costs as well as the declining consumer confidence that might carry on for the rest of the year and affect spending.
The earnings per share for all the Standard & Poor 500 Index companies went up by 13% in the second quarter of the year, according to the predictions made by analysts from Bloomberg. Profits got 18% during the first quarter of the year after its 37% increase back in 2010.
According to John Carey who is from the Pioneer Investment Management Inc in Boston, “We aren’t going to see the dramatic increase we have seen in some quarters. Consumer spending got hammered a bit because of higher oil prices and we have also seen a drop in consumer confidence, which may be hurt numbers.”
Increase in oil prices may have enhanced the profits of various oil companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp at levels that they themselves even have not predicted in the last three years. However, the increase in oil prices have also affected retailers such as WalMart Stores Inc, airlines and other carmakers from all over the world since they do not have much means to keep up with the increasing costs that they have to bear for this year.
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