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61-008-XWE
Quarterly Financial Statistics for Enterprises
Third Quarter 2006

Highlights
  • Corporate operating profits climbed 2.8% to a record $58.4 billion in the third quarter. However, three-quarters of the increase was in the petroleum refining and the banking industries. Excluding these two industries operating profit edged up a more modest 0.8%, comparable to the second quarter increase. Profit growth has slowed considerably in 2006 following average quarterly gains of 4.1% in 2005.

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