Since writedowns are supposed to be sudden and unpredictable, the analysts make no effort to forecast them.
And as I think we described at the time, we had -- we tried to do an honest, conservative forecast to make sure that we were basing our budget numbers on sort of as close to the consensus and reasonable forecast as we can.
Every year we try to do an honest, reasonable, conservative forecast to make sure that we are basing our budget assumptions on the best possible forecast that we can.
Then, there is the oddity that the forecasters may have some small ability to make their forecast a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Because Cisco asks its suppliers to make unique components, it must order to forecast.
You can modify the chart above to make your own forecast.
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The Category 1 hurricane was forecast to make landfall Tuesday night and could strengthen before it does.
Prices have not fallen anywhere near enough to make this a sensible forecast.
The system uses advanced analytics to make an accurate evaluation and forecast financial performance.
"To make matters worse the weather forecast was dreadful, " said an RNLI spokesperson.
Petitioner likewise failed to maintain a budget or to make any financial projections, economic forecast, or other analyses demonstrating financial management or planning.
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They are developing software to help grid managers make sense of all that real-time data, and even to forecast problems before they occur.
"Our overarching recommendation is that funding arrangements in London should allow London government to make additional self-determined investments in its own infrastructure both to cater for the growth already forecast for its population and economy, and to promote additional economic growth, " the report says.
"This, and the fact that UK oil revenue is forecast to decline in any case, would make the budgetary impact marginal, " says the note.
It is a month when margin sales are lower as stores promote heavy clearance discounts to make way for holiday products, so the most reliable forecast we might get from a look at the sales data is whether Snooki beat a zombie for most popular Halloween costume this year.
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Air France said it expected to make a smaller loss in the June quarter than it had forecast.
It also said it expects to make a smaller loss in the first half than it had previously forecast.
We further forecast the central eye of the storm to approach, or make landfall in Florida Monday or Monday night.
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Mickelson, who went straight to the practice green after his round to work on his putting, said the dry weather forecast would make the course play even faster and harder.
He tried several times to make growth appear as if it was in line with his 4 percent forecast earlier in the year, citing 2.5 percent growth in agribusiness GDP, up 10 percent annualized and 1.1 percent industrial sector growth, up 4.4 percent.
The National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, or Fedecafe, isn't giving a firm forecast for next year's crop, saying estimates are hard to make given the large amount of rain that came down this winter.
And after Derek rapped a forecast for the coming weekend, they declared they would sack bandmate Maggot to make way for him as their new member.
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We currently forecast 5% market share for Dell in the Android tablet market which is expected to make up 30% of total tablet market in 2011.
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