prewar

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Analysts expect 17.8% earnings growth this year, higher than the prewar estimate of 14.6%.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

Still, foreign stocks remain cheap, and because of prewar gains in the quarter, the average foreign large blend fund’s 0.3% gain still beat the average U.S. large blend fund’s 4% loss.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

If the Strait of Hormuz fully reopens soon, experts estimate that it could take weeks or months for oil and gas prices to return to prewar levels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Individual investors have still been buying stocks on a net basis, though the pace of their purchases has cooled from prewar averages, estimates from Citadel Securities and Vanda Research show.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

At the end of the war, of Kraków's prewar Jewish population of about 60,000, only a few thousand remained.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson