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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of undershoot.

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  • Earlier this month, Société Générale said third-quarter net profit fell 31% to €622 million from the year before, undershooting analyst forecasts of €732 million.

    SocGen to Cut Hundreds of Jobs Noemie Bisserbe 2011

  • It will also reassure policy makers at the Bank of England, who contend that inflation is poised to slow precipitously this year and risks undershooting its 2% target by the fourth quarter.

    U.K. Inflation Slows Sharply Jason Douglas 2012

  • The BOE's own forecast shows inflation sliding, potentially undershooting its 2% target.

    Will More QE Help the U.K.? Richard Barley 2012

  • Indeed, I posted before how the Blue Chip forecast for GDP growth in Q4 09 kept going up throughout the last half of 2009, and still ended up undershooting in the final January report before the release.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Soon-to-Change Unemployment Narrative 2010

  • FRANKFURT—German producer prices were unchanged on a monthly basis in May, slightly undershooting expectations of a small increase, data released Monday by the Federal Statistics Office showed.

    German Producer Prices Below Expectations Todd Buell 2011

  • Stripping out items like a $528 million noncash benefit from a tax adjustment, per-share earnings fell to $3.55 from $3.77 a year earlier, undershooting Wall Street expectations.

    CME Will Protect Farmers' Hedges Jacob Bunge 2012

  • Compared with most population forecasts made in the past half century, the world keeps undershooting.

    Who's Afraid of Seven Billion People? Matt Ridley 2011

  • FRANKFURT—German producer prices were unchanged on a monthly basis in May, slightly undershooting expectations of a small increase, data released Monday by the Federal Statistics Office showed.

    German Producer Prices Below Expectations Todd Buell 2011

  • Its rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee revived the central bank's stimulus program in October, after concluding that a darkening outlook eant inflation was at risk of undershooting its 2% target by the end of 2012.

    U.K. Consumers Repay Debt, Money Supply Shrinks Jason Douglas 2012

  • With both employment and inflation far undershooting the Fed's targets this year, the big question has been whether the central bank will act.

    Bernanke answers half the question Ezra Klein 2010

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