Sentence examples for for third quarter from inspiring English sources

With the stock market slumping, analysts are quickly revising their estimates for third quarter earnings, which the banks are set to report in mid-October.

With the data in hand, Barclays raised its estimate for third quarter growth by two tenths of a point to a 2.2 percent rate.

"This softer inventory accumulation in the second quarter is modestly favorable for third quarter growth," said Daniel Silver, an economist at JPMorgan in New York.

It said despite the increase in the PPI bill it still expected to meet market expectations for third quarter profits, but analysts said merely meeting forecasts would be seen as disappointing.

It is looking for third quarter earnings per share in a range of $0.72 to $0.84.

Expectations for third quarter earnings hold for a gain from the previous period, a notable accomplishment during this economic environment.

This week America's Bureau of Economic Analysis BEAA) published its preliminary revisions for third quarter GDP, earlier estimated at an extremely disappointing 1.6%.

Based on estimated data for third quarter GDP, the consumer now accounts for around 72percentt of output, a far cry from the 50-year median of 64.5percentt.

Silgan Holdings, a maker of containers for food and cosmetics, cut its forecast yesterday for third-quarter and full-year profit.

Had the loans been included, Conseco's delinquency rate for third-quarter 1999 would have been more than 3%, rather than the reported 1.3%, according to the suit.

Industry sales were down 24% year-over-year for the month of September and 13% year-over-year for third-quarter calendar 2005, but sales of EA were up 2% year-over-year during the third quarter, beating Merrill Lynch's expectations.