CORPORATE PROFITS

摘要

In addition to their regular forecasts, country panellists were asked to provide estimates of the growth of corporate profits in their respective economies between now and 2021. As is our usual practice, the data is measured as the average percentage change over the previous calendar year. Not surprisingly, the individual profits definitions differ according to local custom and data availability. However, following discussions with forecasters from our country panels, the definitions outlined below were considered as generally accepted economic measures of corporate profitability. The resulting consensus forecasts represent mean averages of the panellists' forecasts. Readers should note that the groups of survey respondents may be smaller than those listed on our main country forecast tables.