And Test cricket's demise has been forecast so often and for so long that I can barely raise an eyebrow if it's forecast today.
The problem of medium to long term sales forecasting raises a number of requirements that must be suitably addressed in the design of the employed forecasting methods.
Now for the first time, really I would say in several quarters, you're starting to see people start to raise their forecasts a little bit for the later this year and '10.
The government is expected to raise its forecast for 2010 to 1.5 percent from 1.2 percent, Reuters reported.
Less than a month later, it raised its forecast to a range of $1.20 to $1.30.
Caterpillar fell $1.86, or 6percentto to $29.45, after Andrew Obin, an analyst at Bank of America, raised his forecast for a first-quarter loss by the company to 23 cents, from 11 cents.
A rise in sea surface temperatures in the following months prompted the forecasting group to once again raise their forecasts to indicate a near-average season in their final August forecast update, which predicted 27 tropical storms.
Paris-based International Energy Agency and the U.S. government's Energy Information Administration left fuel demand growth for this year unchanged and OPEC only raised their forecast by a relatively small amount (to 87.9m b/d from 87.8m b/d).
