In July, they forecast 3.5 percent growth in 2012 and 3.9 percent in 2013.
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They forecast average weekly hours to tick down to 34.3 (from 34.4 in October).
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Casual reading can lead one to believe they forecast a rise of 18-59 cm (7-17 inches) this century.
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They forecast a market of 44m satellite subscribers by 2010, divided more or less equally between the two providers.
With that said, the company sounded a cautious tone for April sales as they forecast a low double-digit decline for this month.
They forecast 10 named storms in the Atlantic Basin, of which only four will become hurricanes and two will become major hurricanes.
They forecast a 7 percent increase over May 2012 to around 1.4 million vehicles, putting the industry back on pace for full-year sales of more than 15 million.
Re-think how and what they forecast, measure and budget for.
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They forecast Apple, which keeps its iPhone price high, will see iPhone sales plateau in coming years as more consumers snap up cheaper phones and more variety in screen sizes.
They forecast that if temperatures rise as projected by climate models, trees will face worse drought stress in the first half of the twenty-first century than they have experienced for 1, 000 years, probably driving a transformation of the ecosystem.
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As I wrote in my earlier blog, the IFS and pretty much every other economic forecaster expected the OBR to raise its estimate of the structural current deficit, given what we knew about the way they forecast these things.
They also forecast that earnings will grow 28% into 2009 and will grow at 50% annualized over the next five years.
They have forecast robust sales for Samsung's latest smartphone model, the Galaxy S4, which is set to hit the stores later this month.
The same pollsters who give him such a hard time, he says, got it badly wrong last year: they had forecast, shortly before the general election, that Mr Guterres would win a bigger majority than Mr Cavaco Silva had held.
Instead they had reduced our revenue forecast by over 30%, which was the sole reason they had reduced our earnings forecast.
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Ackman has challenged the strength of MBIA and other bond insurers for more than five years and as recently as November forecast they would be insolvent by the second quarter because of their exposure as guarantors to billions of credit derivatives products packed with subprime mortgage debt.
Instead the Fed had reduced our revenue forecast by more than 30%, which was the sole reason they had reduced our earnings forecast.
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Qwest would also have to eliminate a huge number of jobs--most likely in excess of the 15, 000 they've already forecast.
They dissect their seasons, measure them against each other, and forecast how many games they must win to earn an NCAA Tournament invite.
These deals have been coming in so fast and furious, it is difficult to forecast how they will collectively affect earnings going forward.
And imports rose only 22.7%, slowed significantly from the increase of 34.1% in June, and well below the forecast that they would increase 30.2%.
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If these forecasts both drop by about 10% from our end year forecast, they each shave off a few percent from our price estimate.
Analysts were hoping for at least 3% growth, and since the company is widely seen as an industry bellwether, they hoped a stronger forecast would indicate a stronger overall recovery in tech spending.
While these two scenarios are more pessimistic than our current forecast, they could help explain some of the discrepancies between the market price and our price estimate, and it could highlight some potential sources of downside risk should circumstances deteriorate further than the ones outlined here.
They are developing software to help grid managers make sense of all that real-time data, and even to forecast problems before they occur.
They updated him on a forecast coastal low that is anticipated to be in the Northeastern region probably on Wednesday.
Using a top-down approach, they might develop a basic forecast of the economy followed by an assessment of which industries hold the most promise.
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