Disk drive maker Seagate Technology (STX) forecast second quarter revenue expectations ahead of analyst estimates late yesterday, and gave its prognosis of its industry related to the record flooding in Thailand.

FORBES: Seagate Update Guidance on Thai Flooding Impact

Five years from now, he suggests, biochip analysis might be used routinely to choose the right treatment for a particular patient, to forecast how effective that treatment will be, and even to estimate the long-term prognosis.

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On the one hand, the OBR admits that its gloomy prognosis of low economic growth and falling living standards in Britain may not be gloomy enough - because that forecast is predicated on an orderly resolution of the eurozone's debt crisis.

BBC: Would euro solution be costly for Treasury?