For the record, we at TrimTabs track daily Treasury collections of withheld income and employment taxes and adjust for changes in tax rates to estimate real time wages and salaries.
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Note that while the chart shows a slight earnings increase in the first quarter of 1.4% due to changes in the companies in the index the current estimate is for a (0.7%) decline.
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The techniques used by Bloomberg to estimate changes in dividend payments were 85% successful in identifying companies that will soon initiate or raise their dividend in 2009 with a recent success in calling the initiation of a dividend by Starbucks.
See the impact on our price estimate from changes in number of subscribers per month in the chart above or visit our site to see the full analysis.
The net change in the GDP estimate from the first to the second estimate of the third quarter reflects changes in several variables in addition to inventories.
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After recovering from a record low of negative 86% in December 2008, meaning that 86% of estimate changes were downgrades, the ratio hit a high of 25% in May but began to moderate in June to 22%.
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However, video conferencing currently constitutes under 2% of our price estimate for CSCO stock and so changes in pricing alone will not move the stock that much.
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This estimate, of course, is very sensitive to changes in market valuations.
All the rest results from changes in the scope of the program or the rules the government used to estimate costs.
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To be fair, CBO is clear that this is a preliminary estimate that does not take into account a host of changes in the economy, technical matters, and the effects of the implementation to date.
This is because hardware constitutes a relatively smaller portion of our price estimate for IBM, making its stock value much less sensitive to changes in server forecasts.
The overall estimate of the number of people in poverty actually increases as a result of all of these changes.
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