There has also been a burst of activity in the past 10 or 15 years around the notion of using prediction markets within organizations as a way of aggregating employees' knowledge to make more-robust forecasts, for instance.
The euro has gained 10 percent against the dollar; economic recovery in the euro area is more robust than forecast, although uneven; European stocks outperformed the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index in July; and interbank lending has thawed after the publication of results for stress tests on European banks.
Not surprisingly, enhanced governance tops the priority list among the common themes, while more robust financial forecasting also features quite prominently.
It is expected that such a dynamic mechanism will produce more robust and reliable forecasts.
Embedded in the notion of an insight is the idea that qualitative judgments are more robust than quantitative forecasts.
True, some on Wall Street had forecast a more robust rebound.
What may further complicate negotiations is Gucci's recent stock gains, and Mr. De Sole's forecast of more robust earnings for the second half of the year.
"If my forecast for more robust economic growth materializes, then, at some point, a Fed funds rate of 1percentt will no longer be the best policy," he said in a speech in Atlanta.
On Sept. 29, St . Petersburg Fla.-based Jabil Circuit beat Wall Street's expectations for sales and profits when it reported results of its most recent quarter (ending in August) and forecast results more robust than originally anticipated for the current quarter.
Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg asked Carney why, when the Bank's forecasts "were so wrong", he had failed to support monetary policy committee member Ian McCafferty, who said the UK was more robust than Threadneedle Street's forecasts predicted and refused to back some measures to ease credit further.
By accounting for the interaction of the physical (climate) and biologic (vector, pathogen, and host) systems, a more robust means of monitoring and forecasting disease should be attained.
