Sentence examples for forecasts in the second from inspiring English sources
Watson Pharmaceuticals plunged $4.80, to $27.49, after the company said it would miss earnings forecasts in the second quarter because of slow sales of its oral contraceptive products.
Wal-Mart Stores rose $1.05, or 1.5 percent, to $70.26 after beating analysts' profit forecasts in the fourth quarter.
The dramatic deterioration in FOMC forecasts in the fourth quarter of 2008 rationalises the Fed's pre-emptive easing that year.
Some of the habits she encourages are the same ones that have helped produce such lousy forecasts in the first place.
The UK government estimates that would have left a £18bn shortfall in the SNP's taxation and spending forecasts in the first three years of independence.
Of course, these are the same people who failed to see the recession coming so really we shouldn't have even paid any attention to their forecasts in the first place.
Growth at the consumer goods multinational, which makes Dove soap, Ben & Jerry's ice-cream and Persil washing powder, failed to meet market forecasts in the fourth quarter, with underlying sales rising by 2.1%.
When I.B.M. announced in mid-January that it had beat Wall Street's profit forecasts in the fourth quarter, it did not disclose that the sale of a business had generated $300 million that the company used to lower its operating costs.
Profit will increase slower than forecast in the second quarter but accelerate in the second half of the year, the company said.
