Because Cisco asks its suppliers to make unique components, it must order to forecast.
But it's no easier to forecast a hit in this business than in Hollywood.
Of all the returns we estimate, perhaps inflation is the most difficult to forecast.
Customer contracts are for 10 to 15 years, so cash flow is easy to forecast.
So, what about trying to forecast not only the rainstorms but also their likely impact?
He added that Iraq-related concerns were rendering it "especially difficult" to forecast US economic performance.
Each year Forbes.com asks a bunch of us to forecast business highlights of the new annum.
That makes it difficult for us who try to forecast the markets as well.
It is impossible to forecast an exact intensity for Isaac at the latitude of Tampa.
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Since writedowns are supposed to be sudden and unpredictable, the analysts make no effort to forecast them.
Being able to forecast solar energy production is crucial for maintaining the health of an electric grid.
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This brings into question the very basis for MPT and its ability to forecast an efficient frontier.
For the June quarter, he continues to forecast 25 million units, below the Street at 32 million.
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It is still too early in the election cycle for opinion polls to forecast 10 months out.
The bottom line is FHA uses a faulty econometric model that vastly underestimates defaults to forecast losses.
The business is just too unpredictable for even the players to forecast more than trend and general direction.
This scenario is my leading reason to forecast that we will not test the 2011 highs in 2012.
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First, they find out about their subjects' attitudes towards risk and their ability to forecast a given outcome.
It's dangerous, of course, to forecast too direct a link between what happens this fall and November 2000.
In reality, big oil profits are controlled by a long list of factors that are comically difficult to forecast.
"We're not going to try to forecast anything or predetermine anything, " Idzik said.
He said it would provide cleaner and more accurate data for the computer models used to forecast the weather.
As the saying goes, it's always dangerous to forecast, especially about the future.
The Environment Agency now has computer systems to forecast floods and issue warnings.
Statisticians who understand data and can use it to forecast trends and behavior will do especially well, she says.
The previous fourth quarter exhibited strong economic growth leading economists to forecast robust economic growth for the ensuing 12 months.
The more visible the future growth potential is, the easier it is to forecast within a reasonable range of accuracy.
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Hoffman expects the maker of technology for wireless phones to forecast sales of 96 million handsets--a figure he deems conservative.
That has led many economists to forecast a slow start to 2013, followed by faster growth in the second half.
That what is happening in Egypt was a surprise does not mean those who failed to forecast the uprising are incompetent.
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