"preliminary outlook" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to provide an early assessment or expectations of a specific situation. For example, "Our preliminary outlook indicates that profits will rise in the third quarter."
The preliminary outlook seems to be: keep those hatches battened down.
In its preliminary outlook for 2009, it also said it expected industry mobile device volumes to be lower than in 2008, mainly because of the overall economic slowdown.
In addition, we provide a preliminary outlook on the effectiveness of the programme.
Nokia provides preliminary financial information for Q4 2012 and preliminary outlook for Q1 2013.
The resulting potential impact maps provide a preliminary outlook on risks that may help governments of countries to make storm surge disaster prevention and reduction plans.
But the preliminary outlook is that Tuesday's storm was "just the first of several cold-weather storms coming into California down from the Gulf of Alaska," Orrock said.
Then we present as an outlook some preliminary results obtained for further data preparation steps beyond normalization and PCA.
We present some preliminary results and future outlooks.
Still growingThe OECD, in a preliminary edition of its Economic Outlook, said that prospects for the world economy were more favourable than they had been for over ten years.
INDUSTRY REPORTS Retailers will report their same-store sales, and the home builder Toll Brothers will discuss its preliminary fourth-quarter results and outlook (Thursday). ET CETERA The European Union trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, above, and the internal market and services commissioner, Charlie McCreevy, will visit United States officials (Thursday and Friday).
Preliminary pathological tests indicate a good outlook.
