These factors combined indicate we can expect an increasing demand for products in all our stores nationwide, thus increasing our profits in the coming year.

这些因素说明我们可以预计我们全国的商店产品需求将会增加，因而我们来年的利润也会上升。

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Consequently, dividends, interest, capital gains, tolls from toll roads, rents, and profits, now flow abroad to foreign owners, thus increasing the pressure on the us dollar.

结果，股息、利息、资本利得、公路收费，租金和利润，现在都流到了国外，从而增加了美元的压力。

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Many of these purchases are financed not with retained profits but with debt, thus increasing firms' leverage and reducing their creditworthiness.

ECONOMIST: A survey of Corporate Finance