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BlackRock strategists aren’t holding their breath for U.S. corporate earnings to finally turn positive in the third quarter.
While many investors have been hoping the S&P 500 index SPX will finally shrug off a string of negative quarters to post slightly positive earnings growth in the third quarter, a team of strategists at BlackRock Investment Institute suspect that earnings growth will remain fairly stagnant for some time (see chart).
Their…