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Benchmark revisions could completely recast underlying data, in which case January forecasts won't be useful.

As this problem is unlikely to resolve itself quickly, we remain concerned that 2006 forecasts could be too aggressive.

At the start of the year, forecasts generally were for a more subdued year than we'd seen in 2004 so 16 percent is a pretty good year.

Earnings growth is still in the pipeline for next year and commodities forecasts are being revised up, so no one is willing to pull the plug on resources stocks just yet. Some of them are in play, so there's added incentive to buy gold stocks.

Feeders stabilized the live cattle; with lower corn and rain forecasts helping the feeders.

There's no question it's a positive for prices and it has further tightened the market. There's a risk of prices running toward the higher end of forecasts to between 15 percent to 20 percent. We've seen spot prices in China rising.

The trade balance was narrower than expected, so that should push most (U.S.) GDP forecasts toward 5 percent in the first quarter,

I've been reading press clippings about what I can do and what I couldn't do for a long time. That's just the nature of the business. ... Forecasts are forecasts. It's forecast to rain today, probably, but that doesn't mean it's going to. What matters is what we think about ourselves.

The world economy is growing at an above average pace for the fourth successive year and, significantly, forecasts have been revised upwards.

The rises in forecasts for steel makers' first-half profit were as expected and positive. As domestic demand will continue to be strong, there is room for further increases in profit.

It would be nice if it turned out we were wrong again, that our forecasts for the second quarter were also too pessimistic, but unfortunately, I don't think that's going to be the case, ... With the ongoing currency situation, higher oil prices, and the more difficult comparisons year-over-year, a slowdown is to be expected.

These companies are boxed in by poor past forecasts and lack of visibility.

These figures are well ahead of expectations and I will be upgrading my forecasts on the back of them.

The six- to 10-day forecasts are colder than average, and we're seeing more cold air behind it. It's going to be very bullish for gas, and we may see a really strong rally.

The substantial upward revisions of the staff forecasts imply more rate hikes to come. The market is absolutely right to price in a June rate hike.

Tech has had a great run, but it's going to take good first quarter of 2004 forecasts to justify the stocks going higher,

Right now the general direction is up and that's because of the economy. But there is still a tremendous amount of skepticism about analysts' forecasts and the ability for corporations to repair profits that could challenge us next week.

Profit forecasts for Europe are still far too high.

Our concern on Qualcomm relates to the outlook for the handset and CDMA business. As we have indicated previously, we remain concerned that the company may take down forecasts for future earnings because we think the company's CDMA forecasts are too aggressive.

So what we're working on with these models is individual forecasts of particular storms. That would be what we're really pressed to look at now.

Oil prices have been exceeding the most bullish forecasts for the past year and a half, and that's not driven by industry fundamentals, but largely by speculation and fears of a potential supply disruption,

Demand went down but not as much as supply. Our forecasts tell us there4s enough growth in the market. What we understand about Las Vegas is that it4s going to grow.

Companies often implement collaborative planning and forecasting with upstream vendors and manufacturing partners, but they rarely translate these demand and production forecasts into transportation capacity requirements and share them with carriers. But some shippers are now providing forward visibility to carriers and securing capacity in advance. These shippers are receiving priority in capacity allocation over shippers that do not if only because carriers appreciate the effort these shippers are making to keep them informed.

A number of respectable institutions raised their current year and 2007 forecasts for gold and more of them are no longer afraid of mentioning the word 'record' when it comes to future gold prices.

As long as interest rates don't rise, that's good for utility stocks, which have a lot of debt. Their borrowing costs won't rise. This means analysts won't change their opinions and forecasts on them.

The weather has become increasingly mild and the forecasts are for now much above normal, for example 17 (degrees Celsius) in Los Angeles -- this is extremely warm for the end of December.

The weather basically gave the builders an opportunity to move things forward. No one changed their plans. But I'll probably change my forecasts for the next two months lower, even if I keep the first quarter forecast at pretty much the same level.

They needed to diversify because ... all the long-term forecasts for DRAM are not bright.

This is yet another example of how AOL is becoming a company that's all about broadband. There's no question that all the forecasts point to the dial-up subscriber count decreasing in the next few years. AOL understands that.

There's a lot of real-time or as-it-happens data that we can get and incorporate into supply chain management. As a consumer electronics manufacturer, for instance, if I can get information about what products are selling at Circuit City or Best Buy and take that into account when doing the demand forecast, then that will create much more accurate, much more up-to-date forecasts than just relying primarily on historical information.

The reserve amount that we are requesting is reasonable in light of the past experience of the past two years and the forecasts of the heightened hurricane activity.

As we saw with April to December earnings, there are a lot of cases where earnings are coming in above forecasts ... companies are giving conservative forecasts, so I think full-year earnings will also beat forecasts.

it relates to the issue of board oversight of financial forecasts and whether the board did its proper job in reviewing the forecasts and making the decision. And that's as specific as I can get.

It is worth noting that, in its revised forecasts for GDP growth, the OECD saw fit to raise its 1999 forecasts for most (euro-zone) member-countries, as compared with its June projections, but lowered those for Germany and Italy.

Forecasts were too high because the government spent less than expected.

Forecasts of parity (with the U.S. dollar) are multiplying faster than bunny rabbits in May.

Forecasts indicate we should expect heavy rainfall, potential flooding and a lot of tree debris. Flooding may affect underground facilities, and outages might be prolonged as a result.

Considering most forecasts projected mortgage interest rates to gradually rise, this could keep the housing market from taking as much of a breather as we have anticipated,

The New Zealand market perhaps has been through its best years for a wee while. There probably is a bit of negative expectation yet to be built into analyst forecasts of profits.

That may be below the bullish $5 billion or $10 billion annual forecasts that some analysts had originally made for Viagra, but $2 billion is an impressive reward for Pfizer.

The big picture here is that the Bank's forecasts for growth and inflation are different to consensus expectations for weaker growth and inflation short term.

The biggest item affecting trading next week will be the consumer price index, because everybody wants to determine how far the Fed will go. And the forward forecasts of the retailers are worth watching as well, because consumers are going to face greater constraints this year due to higher interest rates and a slowing housing market.

Tax-cutter John F. Kennedy was right: A rising tide does indeed lift all boats. From 2005 to 2015 the flat tax would generate $56 billion more in net government income tax revenue than the current tax code, according to Fiscal Associates, whose forecasts are based on the method, in increasing use today, of dynamic analysis.

It's definitely having an effect .... Foreigners are likely worried about the Bank of Japan eventually ending its super-easy monetary policy. Also some companies did down downgrade their profit forecasts and there are those investors who now see Japanese stocks as overvalued.

Its hard enough forecasting when things are reasonably stable. You have to take all of our forecasts with a grain of salt.

It's definitely not out of the woods yet in terms of mobile infrastructure, ... However, we are relatively optimistic overall for 2002. We are expecting an overall 7 percent growth in the infrastructure market, which means that perhaps sometime in quarter 1 or 2 that Ericsson will be in a position to outperform forecasts simply because it has the greatest exposure and is the world leader in its field.

Nokia may have to trim their forecasts as they seem ambitious in a weak economic environment.

It's very possible their forecasts could be revised upwards, seeing the GDP results of the final quarter last year and seeing the world economy is doing fairly well.

The world produces about 85 million barrels a day. That's where demand is now, too. And I've seen forecasts that demand is going to be higher than that by the end of the year.

The warm January has permitted a window of opportunity to stage an early refinery turnover, longer-term weather forecasts call for a warm conclusion to the heating season, and gasoline has been quickly rebuilding stockpiles in advance of summer.

The wake of Hurricane Katrina seems set to keep traders on edge ... and once again a break higher seems unlikely unless we see a change of tune from the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) with regard to monetary policy. Friday's Michigan sentiment figure may yet hold a degree of concern. Some forecasts are putting this number as low as 82 and so long as high fuel prices are with us, action may be required to ensure that domestic expansion can be maintained as we move towards the year end.

The USDA may want to consider expanding the scope of the subjective yield surveys it uses in making the forecasts in order to incorporate a wider range of market and industry participants.

The USDA generates crop production forecasts based on estimates of planted and harvested acreage and two types of yield indications -- a farmer-reported survey and objective measurements.

they can't make accurate hurricane forecasts - and neither can I.

Their earnings were ahead of forecasts and they gave fairly optimistic guidance going forward.

I have seen what I expected to see. I've seen people out doing a lot of window shopping, people doing some buying, lots of folks lined up before the crack of dawn to get the hot toys. I saw consumers out there feeling good, attracted by the big sales, but nothing to justify the gloomy sales forecasts people have made.

I know that the news of dismal economic forecasts and the layoffs in the technology sector has some people in the industry worried,

Importantly for the Fed, the pace of real consumer spending slowed in March, and combined with early forecasts for lower vehicle and retail sales for April, suggests there is some scope for slower growth in the second quarter,

If oil stays at $70 or goes higher I would have to consider whether my growth forecasts are too high.

In reality, Gordon Brown's forecasts will have to be slashed to around 1.75 percent,

Investors have lost sight of what these companies have to do now to comply with SEC regulations. There is no reason for anybody to give optimistic forecasts since you may put yourself in legal jeopardy.

Investors want to see the forecasts for the current fiscal year. They want to see what kind of earnings growth companies are expecting.

Chip makers will get what they need, but the solar cell companies will not get what they need and companies will not meet the forecasts people have for them.

Chinook forecasts for the ocean are going to be down considerably. We have some new (Endangered Species Act) constraints on lower Columbia River stocks that will force us to reduce quotas.

How can we ignore the fact that virtually all forecasts of the budget balance have been wide of the mark in recent years?

Certainly the fundamental picture doesn't look particularly strong. Stocks in the U.S. are still very high, and while forecasts I've seen for weather for next week suggest it should be considerably colder, heating oil stocks look as if they should be sufficient to last through the winter.

By and large we've ended up better than many of the forecasts that were made at the beginning of 2005 and the reason is that economic growth has held up much better than people expected.

By the end of the first quarter you will have had upgrades to profit forecasts, upgrades to GDP forecasts and upgrades to peoples expectations for the performance of European equities into the balance of the year.

If demand continues to surge along you are going to have high prices. Our forecasts currently assume no demand side shock.

I don't think this is a material change, but anyone following consensus forecasts would have already known Carter's expectations were on the high side.

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

The March reading suggests that the pace of economic growth in the state has slowed, but the result is still strongly positive. This is consistent with forecasts by most observers of the national economy, who expect the economy to continue to expand, albeit at a somewhat slower rate.

These forecasts are higher than in the previous survey, particularly for the first half of 2006, suggesting increasing optimism among the forecasters.

All forecasts are for interest rates and mortgage rates to go up a little bit again this year. It could let some of the air out of not the bubble but with what's going in increasing housing prices.

The hike... was in line with expectations, but by raising inflation and growth forecasts for 2006/2007, the window of opportunity for further rate hikes remains open.

The index suggests that the consensus economic forecasts predicting slower growth for the first half of 1999 will be wrong again. We look for growth in Gross Domestic Product to keep running above 3 percent until at least mid-year.

The industry is currently experiencing lower sales due to an inventory overhang and deceleration in the end-equipment markets. Current forecasts suggest the inventory adjustment will be completed by the end of the third quarter, and end-market product demand will improve later in the year.

Although growth and inflation have tracked somewhat below the forecasts made in the (November) Inflation Report, the magnitude has not been seen as sufficient to warrant a fine-tuning on the rate front.

The earnings continue to be positive and analysts continue to upgrade their forecasts on both earnings and gross domestic product growth, but the expectations are largely built into the market.

The earnest weatherman is even more hilarious than in America because his forecasts of change are even more unchanging, and his wondrous maps are always pocked with countless rain cloud symbols that seem permanently rooted across the beloved isle.

The forecasts have been a bit too sanguine, given that the lead indicators of input prices have been quite strong.

The forecasts for the second-half of the year for the most part seem to support a recovery, but to some extent, that's already priced into the market, so you're not seeing that much stock reaction. There's not a lot of conviction and some people will take profits. But I think there will continue to be a moderately upwards bias for the remainder of the year.

The forecasts are pretty good ? if we get normal weather henceforth.

The forecasts are optimistic. The river will probably remain stable for another two days and then start to fall.

The forecasting comparisons for soybeans were somewhat sensitive to the measure of forecast accuracy considered. One measure showed that private market forecasts were more accurate than USDA forecasts for August regardless of the time period considered. Another measure showed just the opposite.

The FT group appears to have grown more strongly so far in 2006, compared with our forecasts for the year.

The challenge they face now is that because they've exceeded forecasts in the past they risk disappointing the market. History suggests that the Street migrates to the high end of their range or slightly above and that certainly sets a high bar for later in the year.

The company reached its own forecasts for the first quarter 2006 and confirmed its outlook for the second quarter.

The Committee is placing more weight on current data releases and, therefore, less weight on forecasts of economic activity and inflation. What I'm foreseeing is that the Fed is going to keep on tightening due to the economy being stronger in the first half of the year.

The determination of global economic activity in recent years has been influenced importantly by capital gains on various types of assets, and the liabilities that finance them. Our forecasts and hence policy are becoming increasingly driven by asset price changes.

Analysts' forecasts for earnings I think are still a little too high. They are expecting 8-percent earnings growth. I don't think we're going to do that. For next year, they're expecting 14-percent earnings growth. I think we'll be lucky to do half of that.

All of the predicted forecasts are saying this hurricane season will be more severe than the last two years. On the other hand, the last two years have been worse than was predicted. Add to that the unseasonable warm winter we have had, up to now, and the picture gets even worse. Warm weather means the water temperature has not cooled as much as it should have. Warmer weather is a great factor in the intensity of upcoming storms.

All reported lines were well above our expectations and far above consensus. We will review our model today and most likely increase our forecasts as well as our share price target.

The market will continue growing, but at a slow pace, for fundamental reasons, including forecasts of oil prices.

The market's reacting to forecasts that heating oil demand will be 20 percent below normal this week, giving refiners a little breathing room to boost supply ahead of winter.

The market is terrific, ... The long range forecasts are still very positive. The Indian is a powerful name, probably the most powerful name in the motorcycle world, other than Harley-Davidson. The question is, after you sell the first 1,000 or 500, will there be an ongoing market?

The market has dropped because of forecasts for higher temperatures. People are buying and selling based on weather forecasts.

The market is seeing a dream run. The runaway rally is not showing any signs of fatigue despite forecasts of corrections at these sharply higher levels.

The market is now taking a pause to assess just what Rita will do. It won't fully digest Rita until Monday, although the forecasts are looking a little better than yesterday at present.

The market is lower as weather forecasts are considered rather bearish through the middle of the month,