And they will be watched closely for what they might forecast for the next parliamentary elections, to be held in 2009.
It is hard to get worked up about future budget gaps, because they have been forecast for years, and never materialized.
Executives at Warburg Pincus and Silver Lake said they forecast a rise in demand for the company's services as financial firms bolster risk management systems after the credit crisis.
For example, the committee has been forecasting increasing wage growth; in November 2014, they forecast wage growth of 3.25% for 2015 – and currently they are forecasting wage growth of 3.75% in both 2016 and 2017, rising to 4% in 2018.
Analysts expect the same trend to boost Alcan's results: They are forecasting for first-quarter earnings per share to grow 81% year-over-year to $1.07, with revenue increasing 11% year-over-year to $5.73 billion.
So as boomers relax into the promise of a safe (and imminent) taxpayer-funded retirement, we asked the young folk what genre of gloom they're forecasting for the 2060s.
They compared the price bankers forecast for oil at the end of each year with the actual outcome over the past decade.
Republicans said they also liked the trend, though they forecasted certain victory for Mr. Schwarzenegger as the party leadership closed ranks around him.
Completion is forecast for 2015.
Higher winds are forecast for Sunday, however.
