For 2012 there is a wide range, with a high of 1, 500 (a 19.2% gain) and a low estimate of 1, 190 (a 5.4% loss).

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This was well above the average estimate that forecast a gain of 100, 000.

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We estimate that Sirius XM will gain about 1.6 million subscribers in 2011.

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Costco reported a 13% increase in same-store sales, beating the estimate for a 7.4% gain.

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Teen retailer Zumiez posted a 8.9% same-store sales increase, compared with the analyst estimate for a 4.5% gain.

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Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. growth, mounted at a revised annual pace of 1.9% versus a previous estimate of a 2.0% gain.

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Offsetting the cost with the expected savings, Marquardt nets out the predicted earnings impact to a gain of some 18 cents per share annually, good for about 4% of his 2014 EPS estimate.

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The company said Wednesday that the U.S. economy likely added only 64, 000 jobs in November, an estimate that went unnoticed by investors caught up in the exuberance of a nearly 500-point gain on the Dow Jones Industrial Average .

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However, he added that as there were no large-scale biorefineries in operation, the team did have to estimate how much bioethanol such a plant would be able to produce in order to calculate the net energy gain.

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