The largest companies in the US are growing faster abroad than at home

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Gumby
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The largest companies in the US are growing faster abroad than at home

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This may not be surprising to anyone, but many US companies in the S&P 500 and the Dow are growing at a faster pace abroad than in the US. This may explain why American companies are raking in large profits while the job market and the economy remains sluggish in the US:

http://washingtonpost.com/the-trials-of ... story.html
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Re: The largest companies in the US are growing faster abroad than at home

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Gumby wrote: This may not be surprising to anyone, but many US companies in the S&P 500 and the Dow are growing at a faster pace abroad than in the US. This may explain why American companies are raking in large profits
And why they continue to pay me ever larger dividends.  :)
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