Profits this year are likely to be flat but will gather strength going into 2009.
Wal-Mart had a particularly feeble month and expects sales to be flat in November.
The company expects same store sales to be flat or decrease up to 3% this year.
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Today, Merck said its earnings would be flat, an even worse outcome than analysts had feared.
We also believe that global demand is likely to be flat to down in 2012.
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Much of what seems sensible, plausible, or certain turns out to be flat out wrong.
At best the markets will be flat, or will have a downside potential of 20%.
But they conceded that revenue expectations in the current quarters continue to be flat.
It expects 2008 sales at restaurants open at least a year to be flat.
Monster also said it expects bookings to be flat to down 10% from the year ago quarter.
Cihra expects global PC shipments to be flat in 2013 after a 3% year-over-year drop in 2012.
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The combat mechanics tend to be pretty limited, and the story-telling tends to be flat and uninspiring.
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Neutral sentiment, expectations that stocks will be flat over the next six months, was essentially unchanged at 22.4%.
Yet he thinks that this quarter it will be flat or even negative.
Another major ad-buying company suggested that ad sales could be flat at broadcast networks and higher at cable networks.
The report expects industry revenue to be flat for the next four years.
In the chart below, you can see that housing continues to be flat, as depicted by the red line.
The company guided Q4 revenue to be flat to up 4% sequentially after a 6% sequential decline in Q3.
That's because profits are expected to be flat or down in the future.
While he is still optimistic about 2003, he concedes that housing starts may be flat or down next year.
So earnings are likely to be flat this year before increasing at a 20% rate in 2002 and succeeding years.
On the downside, if the price index was down -10%, the note would be flat returning 100% of the principal.
This suggests the market (for now) expects cocoa prices to be flat in both the first and second half of 2010.
The surface of the hepatitis C protease turned out to be flat.
On a comparable pro forma basis, sales might be flat or down.
"The world is going to be flat going forward, " said Mr Williams.
Speaking after the race, Mr Balls said that his "biggest concern today was I'd be flat-lining before I got all the way round".
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The company expects devices and services revenue in Q3 to be flat with Q2, with a seasonal pick up in the fourth quarter.
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The company now expects net-revenue yields will be flat to down slightly for the year, excluding the impact of the Costa Concordia incident.
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