The big picture coming from Wall Street looks great.
As of May 23, some 3,193 publicly traded U.S. companies had closed the books on 2018's first quarter, reporting combined net income of $358.3 billion during the three-month span. The total marked a 26 percent year-over-year surge over the group's tally over the same quarter in 2017 and a whopping 63 percent increase over what was reported in 2016's corresponding period, according to a Business Journals analysis.
