Sentence examples for forecast badly from inspiring English sources

The home improvement chain has missed its earnings forecast badly and sales are falling.

Men's suits retailer The Men's Wearhouse, Inc. late Tuesday reported a 35% jump in third-quarter profit, but its fourth-quarter forecast badly missed expectations, sending its shares lower.

A series of high-profile incidents where the Met Office has got its forecasts badly wrong in recent years has somewhat tarnished its reputation.

After the session, one economist quipped that the optimism of the panel was a sure sign of an imminent economic crash - and indeed in both 2007 and 2008 most of the panel members of the day got their forecasts badly wrong.

In densely populated cities where land is scarce, such as New York and London, supply is particularly constrained, so bubbles are also more likely.Fixed but adjustableSome past housing-market forecasts have come badly unstuck because of economists' tendency to concentrate on demand and ignore supply.

If you look closely at the plot, you will notice that the model does not respond very quickly to cyclical upturns and downturns in the data: it is always looking exactly one year behind and assuming that the current trend equals the average trend, so that when the trend takes an unexpected upward or downward turn, the forecasts may miss badly in the same direction for many months in a row.

But my presidential and Senate forecasts for The Huffington Post badly differed from what played out on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

That the presidential forecasting models have performed badly is one thing; my view is that forecasting presidential elections is actually pretty hard.

Exxon Mobil's earnings badly missed forecasts as the company slashed the estimated value of its natural gas assets in the U.S. The firm reported fourth-quarter earnings of $1.7 billion, down from $2.8 billion a year earlier.

Updated at 8.10am GMT 7.57am GMT Jenkins took a swing at the Shipping Forecast -- didn't do badly for a new boy, apparently, and then suggested a one-day job swap with the regular announcer.

If you didn't know that there was going to be a war in the Middle East, or a confrontation over the debt ceiling, or whatever, your forecast may well be very badly wrong; too bad, but that doesn't really speak to your underlying model.