Sentence examples for forecasting businesses from inspiring English sources

Two days before Black Thursday in October 1929 the perhaps most distinguished American economist of his time and the head of what was then one of the country's most prominent economic forecasting businesses, Yale professor Irving Fisher, was quoted in the New York Times as saying that "stock prices are low".

He said: "This government isn't in the forecasting business.

"It would be nuts for us to be in the forecasting business," Mr. Axelrod said.

"So we started getting into the forecasting business a bit," he said.

But, having learned a bit of humility in the political forecasting business, I'm not going to predict this one.

If Sally Field or Amy Adams wins instead, it will probably be time for me to retire from the Oscar forecasting business.

Everyone in the forecasting business is scrambling to mark down both their estimates of second-quarter growth and their forecasts for later in the year.

"We're not in the prediction business, and we're not in the forecasting business," said Michael Chui, a principal of the McKinsey Global Institute.

Trained as a designer, Ms. Fowler established the fashion forecasting business Editd in 2009 with Geoff Watts, a programmer with a background in financial modeling.

Joseph H. Ellis Manhattan, March 4 The writer is the author of "Ahead of the Curve: A Commonsense Guide to Forecasting Business and Market Cycles".

Also, the volatility of price movements when the turning points are passed can quickly result in errors of spectacular proportion.A greater element of "shamanism" has crept into the forecasting business as modelling has increased in esotericism.