Sentence examples for forecasts at the start from inspiring English sources

Despite pessimistic forecasts at the start of the year, the euro did not crash and burn.

The euro area looks set for an even weaker recovery, on IMF forecasts at the start of this year.

In the five months through May, new-car sales were declining at a 6.8 percent annual pace, somewhat worse than most forecasts at the start of the year.

The drop follows four years of sustained growth in the graduate recruitment market and contrasts with employer forecasts at the start of this year for growth of 2% in vacancies this year.

For forecasts at the start of anthesis, the overall mean absolute error for yield (MAE, t ha−1 dry matter) was reduced by 0.24 (or in relative terms 27%) compared to the assumption of treatment-specific (site ∗ preceding crop) average yield.

"The way Purito is going, it will be difficult for Contador to beat him," Valverde forecast at the start of the final week of racing.

That estimate is above the 1.9 percent forecast at the start of earnings season, but well below the 9.9 percent forecast on Oct. 1.

Nonetheless, the company predicted sales for 2003 of 52 million handsets, sticking to its forecast at the start of the year.

Fuel accounts for 35.6 percent of Cathay's operating costs, and fuel prices are now well above what it had forecast at the start of the year, Cathay said.

Fourth-quarter earnings for S.& P. 500 companies are estimated to have risen 6 percent, according to the data, above a 1.9 percent forecast at the start of the earnings season.

Thanks to improved results, Jürgen Schrempp, the chief executive, said Daimler expected its 2002 results to be at least triple the $1.3 billion profit it forecast at the start of the year.