Meanwhile, sales have come in below forecasts, declining 0.2%, while analysts had expected 0.5% growth.
Leading economic indicators and the Philadelphia Fed business survey both came in below forecasts.
U.S. economic growth comes up light in the second quarter with GDP numbers coming in well below forecasts.
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Federated, which owns Macy's and Bloomingdale's, says that sales have fallen by 20% below forecasts since the attacks.
Profit sagged below forecasts and so did sales, even though they were up 45% over the same quarter in 2011.
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First-time initial jobless claims fell by 23, 000 to 369, 000 in the most recent reporting week, coming in below forecasts for 370, 000 to 375, 000.
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Crocs slid 1.01, or 5%, to 19.41, after the shoe maker's fourth-quarter earnings topped expectations but its first-quarter earnings outlook was below forecasts.
Amidst the turmoil afflicting drug firms--last week Merck cut earnings forecasts for 2009 to well below analyst forecasts--biotech copycats are appealing because they will be far more expensive than traditional generic drugs but will still be cheaper to develop than brand-new drugs.
The chart below shows forecasts cash productivity for Best Buy and Wal-Mart from 2011-14.
The company also provided current quarter earnings and revenue projections that were below current forecasts.
That would be a drop on a par with the 1930s and far below most forecasts.
Acme Packet shares are down dramatically in late trading after the company warned that results for the third quarter were well below Street forecasts.
Deutsche Bank forecast that light-vehicle electrification will turn world oil demand downward from 2016, falling by 2030 to 8 percent below current levels or 40 percent below most forecasts.
Each country's national banking regulators carried out a test that simulated what would happen to a bank's finances during a recession where growth falls more than 4 percentage points below EU forecasts.
The larger-than-expected fall in government spending was one reason why the GDP came in below analysts' forecasts.
The new numbers are below Wall Street forecasts, although there were analysts who were forecasting even lower earnings.
B2B exchange volumes came in 20% to 40% below analysts' forecasts in 2000.
Research In Motion shares fell more than 18% in after-hours trading Thursday after the smartphone vendor posted second-quarter sales and earnings well below pessimistic analyst forecasts.
The company said that operating margins at its phone division would drop to 7-10% over the next few months, down from 11.3% in the last quarter and below analysts' forecasts.
There is a clear risk that it could depress demand below the government's forecasts.
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These are a fraction of historical rates, and below even the core inflation forecasts of the bond market itself.
The projections are below the Fed's forecasts delivered to Congress in July.
International agencies recently lowered forecasts on economic growth below 3 percent, citing Europe and South America as suspect drivers.
Aboulafia derides the exaggerated sales expectations that companies have for the systems, noting that his consultancy estimates the value of world unmanned aircraft output today at only 2.5 percent of the amount for manned aircraft, and forecasts it will remain below five percent in 2020.
Long-term (three-to-five year) earnings growth forecasts for the eight companies below average out at 17.
On unchanged policies, the Bank's forecasts show inflation slightly further below target in two to three years.
You can drag the trend-lines in the charts below to create your own search growth forecasts and see how they impact the three stocks.
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Fassler says his revenue and profit forecasts for the July quarter are below Street estimates.
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All forecasts are shown in the table below and are based on a model incorporating the previous data points of the Case-Shiller series and the September Zillow data on the Zillow Home Value Index and national foreclosure resales.
Unlike many of its developed peers, Australia's government plans to return to a budget surplus in the next fiscal year and forecasts its net debt to peak just below 10% of GDP, a fraction of the borrowings seen elsewhere.
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