The central bank has just had a stab at forecasting public-sector debt (excluding a small amount of local-government liabilities).
By 2011, the bank forecasts, the sector will have $2 trillion under its belt.Exchange-traded LegoWhat makes ETFs so attractive is their flexibility.
That is a sharp retreat from the Wall Street consensus in early October, when analysts forecast tech sector profits to rise 8percentt in the fourth quarter.
However despite this we forecast the sector to achieve an average return on capital employed of 15%, well above the comparable near 10% cost of capital pre tax.
A report out this month from market research firm Verdict forecasts the sector will enjoy their best growth in Christmas sales since 2007, with consumers expected to spend at least £2bn more than in 2012.
On current forecasts, public sector net debt will rise from 74.7% of GDP this year to a peak of 79.9% in 2015-16, and only start falling by 2016-17, when it will sink back slightly to 79.2%.
It is forecast the sector's worth could grow to £11.1bn by 2016.
The important comparator is this: 18 months ago, the Office for Budget Responsibility OBRR) was forecasting that public sector net debt would reach its peak a year earlier, in 2014-15, and it thought that peak would be considerably lower - 70.9% of GDP (87.2% on the eurozone's basis).
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Canada's finance minister, John Manley, said in late June that, based on private sector forecasts, the government was cutting its growth forecast for the year to 2.2percentt, from the 3.2percentt projected in February.
