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The companies that make up the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index this year will collectively increase earnings per share by 11% to $268, strategists at financial-services firm Goldman Sachs forecast on Friday. They said the biggest U.S.-listed companies as a group have demonstrated healthy fundamentals