Visa, a credit-card firm, forecasts local consumers will spend less on non-games entertainment.
In 2015, the firm forecasts e-commerce in China will total $500 billion.
His firm forecasts American sales of 28,000 Alfa Romeos in 2008, growing to 44,000 three years later.
Her firm forecasts that the total market for flexible displays will grow to $2.8 billion by 2013.
On the other hand, Martin Barnes, at the Bank Credit Analyst (BCA), a Canadian research firm, forecasts merely single-digit growth in profits.
J. D. Power & Associates, a consulting and marketing firm, forecast that new car sales in the United States would fall 12percentthis yearar from 2007.
Indeed, Jupiter Communications, another research firm, forecasts that online content syndication and licensing will amount to a $1.5 billion market in 2004, up from $343 million this year.
A report in June by Gartner, a research firm, forecast that consumer unease due to spam and other online threats such as phishing, viruses and worms will slow e-commerce growth in America by up to 3% in the next three years.
A recent report by King & Wood Mallesons, China's biggest law firm, forecasts that FDI could reach $188 billion in 2020, up from about $120 billion last year.Nevertheless, foreign businesspeople should not break out the champagne yet.
Forrester, a research firm, forecasts this will involve 35,000 jobs by 2010.In pharmaceuticals, the market in outsourced clinical trials, for example, is expected to reach $1 billion annually by 2010.
