Professor Robert Steele, an advisor to the charity Colon Cancer Concern, told BBC News Online any measure which would improve the predicted value of symptoms is to be welcomed.

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Analysts who took the negative news coverage at face value and predicted weakening results for the defense sector last year turned out to be dead wrong.

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He then tallies up the dollar value of those past and predicted earnings and compares it to the average daily trading volume in the stock, as measured in dollars, over the previous year.

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Also, sales executives previously were compensated on the value of a contract and the profit that EDS predicted it would make on the deal the day it was signed.

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According to the report, over a third of FDI inflows to developing countries now originate in other developing countries, a trend which is predicted to increase as emerging economies further industrialize and shift production down the value chain.

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Bill Gross, a fixed-income champion at Pimco, an American asset-management firm, predicted last September that bond returns will outstrip equities until share prices fall to their fair value, that is, until the Dow Jones Industrial Average is at 5, 000 rather than today's 8, 000-odd.

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