Sentence examples for private sector forecasts from inspiring English sources

These figures are slightly higher than most private sector forecasts, but not wildly out of line.

Government forecasts of GDP growth and budget balances are generally more over-optimistic than private sector forecasts.

Canada's finance minister, John Manley, said in late June that, based on private sector forecasts, the government was cutting its growth forecast for the year to 2.2percentt, from the 3.2percentt projected in February.

Under the accounting rules that means we are indeed already on track to meet our minus-5% target, even though private sector forecasts (the official ones have not been released yet) say actual emissions will rise by 4%.

Instead, the finance minister merely cooked up his own growth projections — taking private sector forecasts for the government's revenue, and lopping off $40 billion.

Making predictions is notoriously tricky, but better-than-expected data on Thursday from Automatic Data Processing, a private payroll firm, showed a private sector job gain for August of 201,000, much higher than the 145,000 private sector forecast from economists.

As a result, the budget-making process could probably be improved by using private-sector forecasts.

As in America, private-sector forecasts are gloomier as recession in Europe and austerity at home bite.

That is, the private-sector forecasts offer almost no useful information once one has access to the Fed's internal forecasts.

For 2008 as a whole, average growth in emerging economies was still above 6%, but recent private-sector forecasts suggest that this could slip to less than 4% this year.

Economists at private-sector forecasting firms agreed.