You can't forecast auto traffic on a proposed new bridge by counting ferry boats.
Even though many economists predict a recession in the euro zone in the first quarter of 2012, UBS said it doesn't forecast a collapse in European corporate profits.
Disney, which is launching the Broadway musical "Newsies" this spring, won't forecast how long "Poppins" will stay on Broadway, though Mr. Schumacher says shows that have made it to five years typically go on for at least two more.
He repeats the old chestnut about how buying and holding lets you take advantage of huge upward moves that can't be forecast.
Merck didn't actually forecast total sales for Zetia and Vytorin.
Morgan Stanley estimates slightly less corporate bond issuance than in 2012, but doesn't give a forecast for government debt.
If oil and gas tax has to fill the gap between other tax and expenditure, it requires some large-scale contingency planning in case it doesn't deliver on forecast.
Inventory, which couldn't be correctly forecast, piled up dangerously high.
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.
The weather forecast isn't bad - some rain has to clear on the first morning, but then it is essentially dry and bright.
"I can honestly say the forecast isn't real good, but maybe we'll get lucky, " said Slugger White, the tour's vice president of rules and competition.
Although the maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment originally guided for quarterly results between breakeven and 4 cents a share, Applied Materials said the original forecast didn't account for charges, which weren't known at the time.
Oil services company Halliburton also gained after its loss wasn't as bad as analysts had forecast.
Don't forget China, which is forecast to account for two-thirds of all expansion in air traffic in Asia (projected growth: 8.6% a year from 1990 to 2010).
Are you -- do you have data or information that is driving your GDP forecast that others aren't looking at?
If you still don't want your kids canvassing the neighborhood, or they won't be able to because rain is forecast for your area on October 31, you might enjoy planning your children's Halloween party this year.
So far, laboratory experiments meant to measure how plants will respond to warmer temperatures in the future haven't worked well, and computer models to forecast regional climate effects have fared no better, NASA and university researchers recently concluded.
It wasn't reasonable to ask forecasters to give a regional forecast - only a UK forecast.
Unfortunately, the overall growth forecast for blue-collar jobs isn't promising.
For all the sombre talk about the global recovery losing momentum, the Fund has only nudged down its global growth forecast for 2012 and 2013 - and the forecast for just the advanced economies hasn't changed much either.
BBC: IMF expects less of the UK and a lot of the US and Europe
Doesken said the forecast for the first part of 2013 doesn't include much moisture, and the longer range outlook is uncertain.
It predicts that growth won't exceed 2.8 percent this year, slightly lower than its December forecast of 3 percent.
With a U.S. growth forecast of just 2.5% for 2011, Caterpillar doesn't have high expectations.
Part of the problem with the company's increased outlook--aside from the fact that it didn't put an actual figure on it--was that The Street's forecast is already ahead of that.
People are having a hard time selling their houses, but I don't see a recession at hand, so I want to stick by my relatively optimistic forecast overall.
You can't access most of them, but an easy proxy is Business Week's annual market forecast page in each year's final issue.
Benjamin Silverman, the head of research at InsiderScore, doesn't break out in a cold sweat at every headline reporting another writedown or missed quarterly earnings forecast.
Moreover, McCain has the same gloomy forecast hanging over his game plan, and he's already admitted economic issues aren't his strong suit.
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