In considering the two most important segments to AIG, we wanted to review our forecast for the two most important segments of AIG included below.

FORBES: Reviewing AIG After Former Chairman Golub Calls For Split

Already, in advance of the publication next month of the Quadrennial Defence Review, a government forecast of what America's armed forces will need from now to 2010, Bill Cohen, the secretary of defence, has hinted that more bases will close, there will be fewer men in uniform, and more aircraft will not be bought.

ECONOMIST: Defence spending

We forecast DRAM prices to decline at an average rate of 25% during our review period, compared to 30% average decline as per our previous estimate.

FORBES: What's Driving Micron's Outlook?

Local authority leaders originally forecast 100, 000 posts would go as a result of October's Spending Review, but revised up its estimate a month later after studying the impact of planned town hall budget cuts.

BBC: GMB warns of 200,000 council job losses in England

Despite widespread concern over the size of the increase, Mr Walker refused to forecast whether there would be another increase in four months' time when the next price review takes place.

BBC: 1979: Price of milk shoots up