Sentence examples for forecasting deficit from inspiring English sources

For example, euro area governments during the period 1999-2007 andinaccurately inavoidedely avoided forecasting deficit levels that would exceed the 3% Stability and Growth Pact threshold; meanwhile private sector forecasters were not subject to this crude bias.

Hywel Dda (Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire) Currently forecasting deficit of £12.8m.

Ms Hewitt thinks tighter spending control by the 175 trusts forecasting deficits should bring the accounts into overall balance.

Nine in 10 hospitals and more than two-thirds of health trusts generally are forecasting deficits, and two-thirds of trusts are now reliant either on their reserves or getting extra help from the Department of Health.

Her commitment came under cross-examination by members of the Commons health select committee concerned that the NHS's half-year accounts showed a third of NHS trusts are forecasting deficits totalling almost £1.2bn.

He is forecasting deficits of £33 billion in 2004-05 and £31 billion the year after.On the face of it, deficits on this scale argue for tax increases or spending cuts, but Mr Brown maintains that much of the deficit is cyclical, not structural.

OBR forecast deficit of 6.6% this year, 5.5% next year, then 4.2%, then 2.4%, then 0.8%.

Despite a forecast deficit of up to 150,000 tonnes in the year ending in September 2001, cocoa prices have fallen to a 27-year low.

1936 Roosevelt Forecasts Deficit A gross deficit of $2,096,996,300 for the current fiscal year was forecast today [Sept. 1] by President Roosevelt in a revised budget summary raising previous revenue estimates.

Except the Coalition has spent years telling us the previously forecast deficit and debt levels were a disaster and an emergency, which surely means – by its own reasoning – that bigger deficits are an even bigger disaster.

John Cogan, one of the governor's financial advisers, points out that even if all of the forecast deficit were to be closed by spending cuts, it would still leave state spending per head above its level in 1999.