The revised forecast follow grim research reports this week from Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
Separately, TrimTabs Investment Research forecast that only 38, 000 new jobs were added last month, well below the median forecast of 155, 000 jobs that economists are expecting in Friday's nonfarm payrolls report.
Earlier this month the Economic and Social Research Institute forecast that the Irish economy will grow by just 0.9% in 2012, a downgrade from its previous prediction of 2.3% growth.
The number of mobile broadband subscribers in the U.S. will increase from 6.5 million in 2009 to around 30.2 million in 2014, according to a forecast by the market research firm IDC.
Forrester, a research outfit, forecast that the incident, combined with the high rates of staff attrition in Indian call-centres, would dent call-centre expansion by as much as 30%.
Investment research firm ISI today trimmed its forecast for overall PC unit growth to 6%, from 10%, largely due to weakness in consumer demand.
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By then, Mr. Ticknell says, prices at the complex are expected to have more than doubled, compared with a 73% growth forecast for all of London, according to research commissioned by his firm and conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
Market research firm Gartner this morning trimmed its forecast for 2011 worldwide PC unit growth to 9.3% from 10.5%.
Rachel Hatch is a Research Director in the Ten-Year Forecast program at Institute for the Future, whose mission is to catalyze the global community to think more systematically about longer term futures.
Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu writes in a research note today that he remains comfortable with his forecast that Apple will ship 6.8 million iPads in the June quarter.
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The full forecast and further commentary can be found on the Zillow Real Estate Research page.
Market research firm International Data Corp. this morning chopped its forecast for 2011 worldwide PC unit shipment growth to just 4.2%, down from 7.1%.
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This consensus forecast shows that rightly or wrongly bullishness is alive and well in equity research despite the recent global tumult.
Cross Research analyst Shannon Cross said that even though the company's forecast did not call for much growth, its outlook is strong, given the environment.
Research in Motion (RIMM) said today it will fall short of its own forecast for the third quarter and will miss its guidance for the full year.
The research firm now sees PC units up 5% in 2012, down from a previous forecast of 10.1%, reflecting not only the weak economy but also the impact of tight disk-drive supply due to the floods in Thailand.
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My research shows that managers' quarterly earnings guidance is more accurate than the current analysts' consensus forecast in 70% of cases.
And a piece of recent research, which shows that the cost of cutting pollution often turns out to be less than forecast, supports a modest estimate.
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