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Corporate earnings, from Zubin Al Genubi

I see they are down [at least through Q2]:

FRED: Corporate Profits After Tax (without IVA and CCAdj)

Steve Ellison responds:

Interesting. S&P 500 earnings per share were up both year to date and year over year. And Q3 so far looks better than Q2.

S&P source spreadsheet: Click link to download file: S&P 500 Earnings.

Big Al wonders:

So maybe the big firms are doing better than the smaller ones?

Nils Poertner remembers:

Investment Bank earnings 2007…My very cerebral friend Maurice at the time: "IBs are cheap - look at their PE ratios."