After two years of rising profits, the business environment is shifting to one where firms face higher labor costs and have little chance to boost prices. And our current forecasts for 2019 suggest that growth will decline back to its long-term, two percent trend by the end of the year.
Thus, despite the fact that the economy will continue to expand at a healthy pace, business profits could still come under pressure.
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