He said the numbers were consistent with forecasts that the Federal Open Market Committee, which next meets on Oct. 3, will remain on hold indefinitely.
The ZEW president, Wolfgang Franz, said in a statement that the data were consistent with forecasts for a 6percentt decline in German gross domestic product this year, with growth rates "likely to move around zero percent until the first months of 2010".
Maury N. Harris, chief economist at PaineWebbber, said the "orders data are consistent with our forecast for G.D.P. growth to slow in the third quarter to 3.3percentt at an annual rate after 5.2percentt growth in the second quarter".
Considering their respective "house effects," both polls are consistent with the forecast model's prior take on Colorado, which puts Mr. Obama ahead there by slightly under three percentage points.
Drought and high temperatures are consistent with climate-change forecasts for Texas.
Target's earnings forecasts are "consistent" with analysts' expectations of 30 cents a share for the second quarter and $1.55 a share for the full year, Doug Scovanner, the company's chief financial officer, said on a conference call.
"Yahoo!'s business forecasts are consistent with what we outlined in our last earnings call," retorted Yang and Bostock in a return letter.
In contrast to your assertions about the effect of general economic conditions on our business, Yahoo!'s business forecasts are consistent with what we outlined in our last earnings call.
For most industries, the forecast returns are consistent with actual earnings; that is, the k value is large enough.
The selected equations for each forecast horizon are consistent with the time frame of real-time nowcasting exercises: the first one includes mainly information on the expected evolution of economic activity, while the second and third equations rely more on information on observed business outcomes.
