The beauty of the crystal ball is that it merely shows possible futures and outcomes.
The crystal ball showed me several futures and now I do indeed need to make some decisions.
Well, we'll skip the crystal ball because we have so many other topics.
So I sat down with a cup of Starbucks coffee, called up The Crystal Ball and set to work.
We can see the probable outcome for Goldman in the crystal ball.
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Anyway, why gaze into the crystal ball when history is so clear?
But anything that makes the crystal ball less cloudy is welcome.
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As such, it is probably best to avoid any further use of the crystal ball and to continue to try to identify the market drivers on a daily basis.
It is very difficult to read the oil crystal ball, but the sort of growth in car sales we are seeing is certainly the sort of things that can boost prices for the future.
The modern crystal ball is thus unveiled and companies await the next prediction.
On the heels of second-quarter earnings season, the Wall Street crystal ball is calling for a rocky third quarter and expectations for Q4 and 2013 are also turning less optimistic.
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Leading up to this third Test of the series I hinted at the threat of the sleeping giant called Lara and, after chasing the ball to many parts of the magnificent Adelaide Oval, it is apparent my crystal ball was telling me the truth.
Yet, there are few companies that operate under more confusing conditions than Alcoa, certainly raising the question of whether it is of any importance at all as a crystal ball for the economy or the rest of the stock market.
That might sound like a long shot, but this is actually going to be built: Qatar, host of the 2022 World Cup, just announced plans to construct a gigantic shimmering crystal ball in advance of the tournament.
And nobody has a perfect crystal ball into the future.
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And given the correlation between rising investment and rising wages, rather than buy into a bleak future as though today's struggles are a crystal ball into the future, we must ask what drives the investment that would enhance our wages.
As is the case with any new technology, we didn't have a crystal ball to see how people would use the iPad when it first launched.
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Cognitive biases are trouble for investors as they throw off what should be an objective process of analyzing a security and its value and puts the investor looking into a clouded crystal ball.
Indeed, one would have to possess one heck of a crystal ball to know when the nation will finally find itself with no choice but to adopt a single-payer system because the private insurers will no longer find it worth their while to remain in the business.
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Investors won't need a crystal ball to see them through the end of January.
It doesn't require much of a crystal ball to realize that for the foreseeable future, technology will continue to power wealth creation.
The three key features of this magic negotiation crystal ball include: (1) scenario planning, (2) negotiation move planning, and (3) offer projections.
"This appears to be an unprecedented marathon, to present evidence that is readily susceptible of reading from a crystal ball, " Shapiro told the judge.
"If you had a crystal ball and could know when the market is at its low, that would be the perfect time to buy and get the profits, " Ball said.
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That does not mean that they will be the best performers for all of 2013 as my crystal ball does not look that far out for individual stocks.
For this final column of the season, I asked each of the aforementioned experts to look deep into his roto crystal ball and come up with one player slated for a huge breakout in 2011 and one player set to fall apart.
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No one has a crystal ball, but investors can pick up the scent of trouble early if they are paying attention.
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