Economic concerns may be shaping companies' response to the new tax law, leading executives to opt for acquisitions and shareholder-pleasing tactics such as buybacks over riskier deployments of capital.

Concerns about the outlook in the longer term led economists at the International Monetary Fund in January to lower five-year forecasts, even as they boosted prospects for this year and next.

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