Sentence examples for forecast downward from inspiring English sources

In November, its Japanese rival, Panasonic, revised its annual sales forecast downward by 700 billion yen.

Like many blue-chip companies, it has revised its 2008 pretax profit forecast downward — to 58 billion yen (about $630 million) from 66 billion yen.

OTTAWA — After revising its financial forecast downward, Nortel Networks, the telecommunications equipment maker, said Wednesday that it would make further cutbacks in its already much-reduced operations and that it planned to sell an operating unit it had promoted as a key to its future.

But the market research firm is considering revising that forecast downward due to lack of growth drivers.

But four days later the company revised its sales forecast downward and said that Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son was resigning from the board.

The European Union head office revised the euro-zone's 2005 growth forecast downward to 1.6% Monday, but said the economy was showing signs of moderate recovery on the back of reviving consumer demand.

Still, some producers have revised their earnings and dividend forecasts downward in recent months.

Though the bank revised its growth forecasts downward, the new figures were less pessimistic than some analysts expected.

The IMF has become markedly more bearish on emerging economies since October, revising its forecasts downward by an average of a percentage point.

Analysts and newspaper executives find themselves revising their forecasts downward every few months, unable to gain a stable footing on a sinking floor.

The city was quick to revise its forecasts downward; since then, some taxes have come in stronger than expected and others weaker.