Analysts generally tend to agree with this sentiment, at least when looking at recent estimate revisions.
Economists at Barclays Capital estimate the economy expanded at a 0.5 percent rate in the fourth quarter.
Analysts at JPMorgan estimate that the number of firms will shrink by 30%.
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Medical staff at Leeds estimate he will be out for six to seven months, by which time his contract with the club will have expired.
This index fell by six points in May to 45, its lowest since 1995. (A score below 50 suggests that more builders reckon the market is poor than think it good.) Economists at Goldman Sachs estimate, from the fall in the homebuilders' index, that construction will fall at an annual rate of 10-15% in the next four quarters.
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At the same time, they kept their GDP estimate steady at 2.5%.
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At the low estimate, it would set no records when taking into account private sales.
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Brazil should grow around 3 percent next year, a conservative estimate at this point.
Moreover, a further 33 lots sold only at the low estimate or below.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate at the moment is 75 cents per share, compared to 70 cents in the fourth quarter 2011.
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The Zacks Consensus Estimate at the moment is 43 cents per share.
Dealers at such firms estimate that, tellingly, yields on samurai bonds rise about half a percentage point once they are traded in the secondary market.
Reportedly, analyst expectations had been in a range from 980, 000 to 1.3 million units with the blended estimate at 1 million iPhones for the quarter.
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Elsewhere, sterling rose to a fresh high for the day against the dollar after U.K. economic growth in the first quarter was confirmed at the earlier estimate of 0.3%.
Because of their quality and rarity, the early modernists' works are appreciating steadily: In 1996, for instance, a painting by Anak Agung Gede Sobrat fetched 11 times the estimate at Christie's auction in Amsterdam.
At the high estimate, it certainly would.
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Our best estimate at the moment is that the social cost grows by about 2.5% per year, so that preventing carbon dioxide emissions in 30 years time will be more than twice as valuable as preventing them today.
Of course, we do need to consider all of the possibilities but over the decades actual out turns have been at the low estimate or below: which is why peak population in these predictions has been falling over those decades.
The big mistake, he said, was not capitalizing on the fact that Northern Virginia is far enough away from the District of Columbia to eliminate a lot of fan territory overlap--which both clubs estimate at 25%--but close enough to maintain the joint cable venture.
These figures show that close to 60% of global online job postings are in the U.S. Using this figure, and our estimate of close to 2 million monthly U.S. job postings, we arrive at a global market estimate of close to 3.3 million monthly job postings.
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To arrive at their 2004 revenue estimate, the companies' well-paid advisers seem to have examined historical growth rates at both companies, interpolated them into the future and whacked 4.5% off the total to reflect the inevitable loss of business that occurs as two companies trim sales forces and eliminate product lines.
Unison claims job cuts will be "at least three figures", but the city council stressed it was not in a position to estimate any losses at this stage.
In addition, borrowers would have to receive an estimate of when a mortgage will reset at a higher interest rate and an estimate of the resulting monthly payment.
It sells at 9 times my estimate of 2011 earnings and 1.1 times annual revenue.
It sells at 14 times my estimate of 2009 earnings and 2.5 times book value.
It sells at 15 times my estimate of 2013 earnings with a 3.5% dividend yield.
Our new price estimate is at a premium of about 10% to current market prices.
Hence its estimate that at most a third of the debt can be recovered.
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Dow is just breaking even now, but the stock is at four times my estimate of 2011 earnings.
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