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View of the Day - Tobias Levkovich, Citigroup

Published: July 3 2008 03:00 | Last updated: July 3 2008 03:00

The next 25 years could prove "far more interesting and more challenging" for investors than the past 25, according to Tobias Levkovich, chief US equity strategist at Citigroup.

"Near-record margins will be difficult to maintain over the next 25 years. Following a period in which corporate margins rebounded to levels not seen since the 1960s, it seems difficult to conceive that profit trends will be able to match the 1980s-1990s golden period of improvement. Thus stock market gains could become more muted," he says.

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