Construction output surged 1.9%, up from a prior estimate of 1.4%.
On Friday, Delta Air Lines said it would lose $140 million to $160 million, roughly twice its prior estimate.
The Sports Authority said yesterday that it expected current quarterly earnings to be about triple its prior estimate because of stronger-than-expected sales.
The bureau lowered its prior estimate of the number of jobs created since last August, to 229,000 from 278,000.
The budget office now estimates that 11 million people a month, on average, will receive subsidies this year, down from its prior estimate of 15 million.
The chart below shows the difference, in percentage points, between the new quarterly estimates and the bureau's prior estimate.
The Emulex Corporation, a maker of computer chips and cards, said yesterday that earnings in the fourth fiscal quarter would miss its prior estimate because of "tepid" demand from customers.
The company, based in Clifton, N.J., said after the close of market trading on Thursday that the loss might be as much as 12 cents a share, up from a prior estimate of as much as 9 cents.
As a consequence of our expectations we deem it appropriate to take down our 2016 forecasts again, cutting our current pretax profit to £47.5m from £50.5m (our prior estimate for 2016 was £51.8m).
This method overcomes the difficulties that the traditional active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) technique needs to have a "good" prior estimate for the uncertainties in the input channel.
Distributing soil loss across space according to magnetic patterns gives average long-term values lower than a prior estimate based on Cs-137 data.
