December (late): Expectations exceeded.
Nice try, but too late; expectations are soaring, and they should be.
Others fêted at the lunch included Debbie Allen, Tracee Ellis Ross and the newcomer actress, writer and filmmaker Thais Francis, who starred in and made her self-financed short film, "Late Expectations," after teaching herself how to write screenplays at a Brooklyn library.
At the latest expectations, Carlyle would be valued at less than half of its biggest publicly traded peer, the Blackstone Group, but more than double that of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Apollo Global Management.
Also, two-thirds reported earnings stronger than analysts' latest expectations.
And so his third-place finishes look worse, through the prism of last-minute and late-blooming expectations, than they really are.
Not surprisingly, Russia has lots of new ideas to suck up Caspian oil, and so earn the fat transit fees.If Kazakhstan's oil finds turn out to meet the latest giddy expectations, all the rival pipeline schemes may find themselves in business.
Walt Disney reported quarterly earnings that beat expectations late on Tuesday on strong theme-park attendance and cable advertising revenue.
Those figures will not be disclosed until Oct. 15, which could be too late to set expectations, in time to provide a late influx of cash for campaigns.
Judged by the "breakeven" rate between inflation-protected and other Treasury bonds, financial markets' estimates of long-term inflation have jumped of late, although consumers' expectations have remained stable (see chart).
