Currently we forecast this figure to increase to more than 23% of sales in 2012 and subsequently come down to about 15% of sales, a level close to what has existed historically.
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The non-farm payrolls figure is forecast to have risen by around 155, 000 in December.
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The key non-farm payrolls figure is forecast to come in at up 165, 000 versus up 155, 000 the previous month.
The key non-farm payrolls figure is forecast to be up 125, 000 in November, while the unemployment rate is expected at 9%, which is unchanged from last month.
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In 2012, the figure is forecast at 94.9 billion.
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The figure was above forecast and hiring in February and March was also stronger than previously estimated.
Pantyushin wrote in a note to clients this week that the investment bank expects Russian budget deficits to return in 2012, and forecast the full-year figure at 600 billion roubles or just 1.0% of GDP.
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The figure was lower than forecast and down from a 5.9% rate in February.
That figure still tops the average forecast of Wall Street analysts polled by Thomson Financial.
Any figure significantly deviating from that forecast will likely be a market-mover Friday.
While we estimate global Internet users will reach 4.2 billion by the end of our forecast period, Trefis members predict the figure will reach closer to 5 billion.
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Hoffman expects the maker of technology for wireless phones to forecast sales of 96 million handsets--a figure he deems conservative.
Look for active trading in the precious metals and other markets if the non-farm payrolls figure strays too far from the consensus forecast of up 118, 000.
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Al-Araby predicted in November that this year's deficit would be 10.4 percent of gross domestic product, without stating the figure in pounds, up from the original forecast of 8 percent.
In September, the government cut its growth forecast for the year to 2% - a figure that was still seen as too optimistic by markets even before the latest data release.
Another figure that troubled investors is LinkedIn's forecast for its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA. This measure provides an inkling of how much money the company is likely to make.
We estimate that Akamai will have close to 100 public sector customers by the end of 2010, and we expect this figure to exceed 130 by the end of our forecast period.
Although this figure was lower than the 54 that had been forecast one has to bear in mind that a level greater than 50 signals growth or an expanding base of economic activity.
The consensus forecast for the report called for the key non-farm payrolls figure to have risen by around 200, 000 in March.
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Although the figure was slightly lower than the 11.9% forecast by many economists, it was still higher than the Commission's year-end 11.3% prediction.
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Part of the problem with the company's increased outlook--aside from the fact that it didn't put an actual figure on it--was that The Street's forecast is already ahead of that.
No surprise then that market watcher Gartner just lowered its 2011 PC growth forecast from 9.3% to 3.8% and its 2012 figure from 12.8% to 10.9%.
Had it used the Congressional Budget Office's forecast of growth of 2.5% in 2003, rather than its own figure of 2.9%, the current revision, based on growth of no more than 2.3%, would have been less jarring.
The actual figure was 75.1% of GDP: In other words, the forecast was 32.6 percentage points too low.
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But Figure 2 of the Blanchard-Leigh paper also shows strong negative relationships between fiscal consolidation and growth forecast errors for 2011 and 2012 so this point does not appear correct.
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Economists now figure the economy will grow some 4% next year rather than more than 5%, as previously forecast.
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