Stagecoach and Virgin will exit early from the East Coast mainline and will not pay the government as much as originally forecast, though when state-owned it made a good profit.
The £50m exceptional charge, revealed today in ITV's annual results for 2008, is effectively an admission by ITV that it does not expect to get as much revenue back from live sports coverage as originally forecast when it did the rights deals.
A deficit of more than £900m is being forecast - nearly twice as bad as originally forecast despite ministers announcing an extra £1.6bn for 2018-19 in last year's budget.
Their calculation that every £1 invested in HS2 would generate not £2.40 for the economy, as originally forecast, is now exactly half that figure.
Meanwhile, shares of the biggest U.S. retail chains were mixed after a report from the International Council of Shopping Centers confirmed sales were not as strong in the pre-Christmas holiday shopping period as originally forecast.
One reason residents may have ignored evacuations during Sandy, Jones said, is the perception that Hurricane Irene in August of 2011 was not as destructive as originally forecast.
During the call, in which a cheaper version of the Model 3 electric sedan was announced, Musk said the company would be closing its retail stores and that it would not, as originally forecast, post a profit for the current quarter.
Last week, BusinessWeek magazine added to his woes by claiming The Weinstein Company would not move into profit this year, as was originally forecast at the height of the stock market boom, when Weinstein employed Goldman Sachs to raise $1.2bn from private investors to support its launch.
It will reduce Gazprom's gas exports to a much smaller EU gas market than originally forecasted as the result of a deliberate EU policy of decreasing its overall gas demand and by diversifying its gas imports.
Chief Executive David C. Swanson David C. Swanson said the downturn in the U.S. economy created a more difficult selling environment than originally forecasted.
In so far as the yield has been less than originally forecast, accountants have been falling over themselves to tell the press that sensible "tax planning" meant that many people have, one way or another, avoided paying the full 50%.
