According to forecasts by research firm DisplaySearch, the OLED TV market will experience dramatic growth starting in 2014 to become a USD 3 billion market by 2015.
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There are more than 1.5m over-85s in the UK. By 2030 the number will have doubled and by 2050 they will top 5m, dramatically changing the demography of the country, according to forecasts.
In key European markets, high-speed rail ticket prices are predicted to rise by more than 4% next year due to its popularity over air, according to forecasts by Carlson Wagonlit, a global travel management company.
Not only is the population ageing as better medical standards help people to live longer, but the number of people over 60 years is expected to jump from 10% to 22% of the total worldwide by 2050, according to forecasts by the United Nations.
After two years, KarstadtCoffee, which operates 31 Starbucks coffee houses at prime sites in 11 German cities, is still three years away from breaking even, according to its forecasts.
According to preliminary government forecasts, the country is expected to receive normal rainfall this year and this could cool food prices.
That would be up nearly 50% from last year and the biggest jump of any major farm commodity, according to Agriculture Department forecasts.
No growth is expected this year, according to the latest forecasts by the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist.
Global smartphone shipments rose 64% in 2011 and 43% last year, according to Strategy Analytics, which forecasts sales growth to slow this year to 35%.
Its earnings per share came in at 14 euro cents, also higher than consensus forecasts according to TradeTheNews.com.
According to Energy Information Administration forecasts, electric use will rise another 12 percent in the coming two decades.
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After shrinking by 2% in 2009 and 4.4% in 2010, its GDP will get 5% smaller this year and 2% smaller in 2012, according to the new IMF forecasts.
On a year-to-year basis, global shipments increased 64% in 2011 and 43% in 2012, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, which forecasts sales growth to decline again in 2013 to 35%.
Economists had expected a reading of 37.0, according to the median of 56 forecasts in a Reuters poll.
Consensus growth forecasts (according to Bloomberg) have been revised down by 0.75 percentage points on average since mid-2012.
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The economy will expand by just 1.3% in 2010, according to the average of independent forecasts made in the first half of April and compiled by the Treasury.
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Interest rates could come down as early as the first quarter of 2012, with the new leadership offering up targeted fiscal incentives for small and mid-sized companies to encourage job growth as the economy slows from 10%-plus growth to around 9% next year, according to International Monetary Fund GDP forecasts.
The economy is set to contract by 2.3% this year, the third consecutive year of recession, according to the European Commission's latest forecasts.
According to the filing, actual sales were just 20% of the forecasts, and DNA had to revert back to previous plant capacity and fire the additional employees it had hired.
According to Citigroup, which has just raised its forecasts, earnings will not regain that level until 2013.
On the economic front, the nonmanufacturing sector expanded at a faster pace in February than a month earlier, bucking economists' forecasts for it to slow, according to the Institute for Supply Management.
On the economic front Tuesday, the nonmanufacturing sector expanded at a faster pace than a month earlier, bucking economists' forecasts for it to slow, according to the Institute for Supply Management's nonmanufacturing purchasing managers index for February.
As a result, since 2005 the website has called for rain when there is no measurable downpour less than one-hundredth of an inch nearly twice as often as it has shown no rain in its icons before rain occurs, according to the website Forecast Advisor, which tracks weather forecasts.
According to the Reuters news agency, which quoted an unidentified government source, Germany is very close to lifting its growth forecasts.
Channel Islands weather forecasts will be improved by an upgrade to radar in Jersey, according to the principal meteorological officer.
In the U.S., there have been a handful of cases in which the National Weather Service or meteorologists have been sued for inaccurate forecasts, but none have been found liable in those cases, according to Mike Smith, a meteorologist and senior vice president at AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions, a State College, Pa.
The UK economy will contract by 0.1% this year, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the independent body that makes economic forecasts for the government.
SeatGeek correctly forecasts the direction that ticket prices will head 80% of the time, according to the company.
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