Sentence examples for forecasts to expand from inspiring English sources

Japan has just released its latest growth figures, and the data shows the economy beat forecasts to expand at 0.9% in the three months to March.

Most of Asia's domestic economies are still forecast to expand strongly in 2009.

By contrast, the U.S. economy is forecast to expand just 1.6 percent this year, and that of the euro zone by 1.7 percent.

This year, Mexico's GDP is forecast to expand by 5.7%, driven in part by a rise in consumer spending.

This year, although growth has begun to moderate a bit, China's economy is forecast to expand about 10 percent — continuing a remarkable three-decade streak of double-digit growth.

World cereal production is now expected to contract by 2% in 2010; in June it was forecast to expand by 1.2%.

The IMF predicts growth of 10% in both 2006 and 2007 for China, while India is forecast to expand by 8.3% in 2006 and 7.3% in 2007.

For the euro zone, growth was forecast at 1.7 percent in 2011 and 2 percent the year after, while in Japan, gross domestic product was forecast to expand 1.7 percent in 2011 and 1.3 percent in 2012.

Inflation should start to fall back next year as the effects of a recent sales tax increase start to wane For Japan, the economy was forecast to expand 3 percent this year and 2 percent in 2011.

On August 16th it said that it would pay close to $10 billion to buy control of the Indian oilfields of Britain's Cairn Energy.The Chinese economy is now growing at a rapid clip it is forecast to expand by 10% this year.

Military spending in 2009 had been forecast to expand by 14.9 percent over the 2008 total, but Reuters reported that spending grew at a slightly greater rate because the military spent about $2 billion more than anticipated.