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  • noun Plural form of forecast.

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  • This report and the associated excel database track quarterly KPIs, including revenue service/total, ARPU, CAPEX and EBITDA for over 141 global cellular network operators and provides short term forecasts up to Q4 2012.

    unknown title 2011

  • Economically speaking, actual results regularly come out quite far away from even pretty near-term forecasts, which is one reason why asking economists (or journalists, for that matter) to predict when we're going to come out of recession is an exercise in futility.

    Felix Salmon - All posts 2009

  • A key risk to long-term forecasts and the defensive perception of Roche's future cash flows, however, remains competition to super-selling cancer drugs Rituxan and Herceptin this year and onwards.

    Roche Upbeat on Outlook as Profit Rises Sten Stovall 2012

  • Lenny traces problems of how we handle uncertaintly in forecasts all the way back to Fitzroy, who coined the term ‘forecast’ back in 1862.

    AGU Day 3 part C: How good are predictions from climate models? | Serendipity 2010

  • Short-term forecasts, including theirs, are subject to large errors.

    The Folly of Economic Short-Termism Allan H. Meltzer 2011

  • Behind some of the gloomy longer-term forecasts, however, is a growing realization that the most painful defense cuts probably will be delayed, at least until a new team of Pentagon leaders—including incoming U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, whom the Senate confirmed on Tuesday—finishes a strategic review and reassesses spending plans.

    Defense Sector Sees Delayed Outlay Cuts Andy Pasztor in Paris 2011

  • AMSTERDAM— Royal Philips Electronics NV said Tuesday it plans to cut a further €300 million $410.4 million in costs as it confirmed its mid-term forecasts, despite the cooling global economy.

    Philips Steps Up Cost Cuts Archibald Preuschat 2011

  • The Fed, he said, "One, gives too much weight to short-term forecasts; two, never discusses the medium-term consequences of its decisions; and three, ignores without any discussion warnings such as those that others tried to bring up."

    Little Alarm Shown at Fed At Dawn of Housing Bust Jon Hilsenrath 2012

  • Moreover, the chance of further releases is now another price-capping wild card for near-term forecasts, alongside OPEC infighting, Chinese monetary tightening and Greek solvency.

    A Coalition Strike on Oil Prices Liam Denning 2011

  • The central bank will publish its latest medium-term forecasts for growth and inflation on May 11.

    U.K. Private Sector Slows Sharply Alex Brittain 2011

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