No forecaster is expecting real GDP growth to exceed 3% this year and the unemployment rate is likely to be nearer 6.5% than 6%.
The overnight lows in Canberra were described by a bureau forecaster as a once-in-a-decade occurrence.
As Robert Chote, the head of the Treasury's independent forecaster the Office for Budget Responsibility, told MPs in his testimony following last week's autumn statement, Britons have spent beyond their means during the recovery – running down their savings and adding to their debts.
The main non-core asset left is a 32.9% stake in Top Right, owner of businesses including the fashion forecaster WGSN, communications awards Cannes Lions and Drapers.
Met Office forecaster Marco Petagna said: "It is a real contrast in weather from the early part to the end of the week.
IHS Automotive, a forecaster, expects VW easily to beat its target of 11m sales by 2018.Fierce competition and regulatory pressure to develop alternative-fuel cars are forcing other makers to seek cost-sharing partnerships.
Follower?...of what her website calls "the world's leading economic forecaster", Lyndon LaRouche.
So why was Mr Rattner so sure that Mr Summers is the best forecaster?We suspect that Mr Rattner did what we all routinely do in this sort of situation: he resorted to what Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel laureate, has dubbed "attribute substitution": asked a really tough question, we unconsciously replace it with a much easier one.
A FEW days ago, Lexington attended a breakfast in Washington for foreign ambassadors, business types and politicians, at which Charlie Cook, the veteran political sage and forecaster, was asked about the third and final presidential debate, on foreign policy.
IDC, a forecaster of computing trends, recently issued a report entitled: "The end of the PC-centric era".
Our cheeriest forecaster, J.P. Morgan, expects South Korea to grow by 4% this year.In this section ECONOMIC FORECAST ECONOMY FINANCIAL MARKETS Reprints.
