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The market’s net retrenchment of recent days will tend to damp that impetus, a development that should help to prolong our six-and-a-half-year business expansion. As I have testified previously, much of the stock price gain since early 1995 seems to have reflected upward revisions of long-term earnings expectations, which were implying a continuing indefinite rise in profit margins from already high levels.