Sentence examples for forecast even though from inspiring English sources

The bank issued the more optimistic forecast even though Korea's currency, the won, is at its highest level since December 2000.

In the event, he will be out by £100bn - borrowing £112bn, almost 10 times his forecast, even though he increased national insurance by £9bn a year after the 2001 election.

(Because Mr. Coen lowered his total for 2003, the percentage increase for 2004 is higher than it was in his December forecast even though his total for 2004 is less than the $266.4 billion he predicted then).

It has doggedly stuck to a 3.9% 2014 growth forecast, even though its main export market, the United States, has been sluggish, and the twin pillars of its domestic economy buying and building have fared even worse.On May 21st the central bank revised its growth prediction down to 2.3-3.3 2.3-3.33-4% previously.

Wal-Mart Stores, the world's biggest retailer, on Monday said it still expects to meet its June sales forecast even though demand remains slack for summer items such as shorts, tank tops and water games.

For some coefficients, there exists a systematic bias (see, for instance, the positive trend taken by the average (dot {h}_{2}^{1}) forecast) : even though the observed series usually lies within the ensemble of forecast realizations, it sometimes lies in an area of lower probability, as measured by the pdf of the forecast.

"There's nothing that can help the stock from sliding now," said Mark Moskowitz, an analyst at J. P. Morgan Securities, who said Apple's holiday sales met his own forecasts, even though they missed others' predictions.

The bank earned $5 billion in the most recent quarter, easily beating Wall Street's forecasts, even though it announced that it was taking a deeper loss from a complex trade that went wrong.

Analysts described the sales as disappointing and several said they would trim profits forecasts, even though the company said it was too early to predict its full-year outcome because Christmas is so crucial.

Nokia said today that cost-cutting and a shift toward more expensive phone models would sustain its profits at or above previous forecasts, even though its sales would probably fall in the quarter.

[C2.] Ford Posts 5.1% Rise in Earnings Brisk sales of luxury cars and sport utility vehicles in the United States helped lift Ford Motor's first-quarter earnings 5.1percentt, above forecasts, even though its overseas operations continued to lose money, the company said.