Overall, the December data was broadly in line with consensus forecasts, except for trade.
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Retail sales re-accelerated to 4.4% year over year in March from 2.5% in February, beating consensus forecasts.
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Its earnings per share came in at 14 euro cents, also higher than consensus forecasts according to TradeTheNews.com.
In a per share basis, Barrick Gold posted earnings of 95 cents, compared with consensus forecasts of 84 cents.
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The decline was a little better than market consensus forecasts for inflation to come in at 7.0% last month.
Industrial production growth for August slowed further to 8.9 percent year over year while consensus forecasts were 9.1 percent.
Apple gave a solid Q3 performance driven by strong iPhone and iPad sales beating its own guidance and consensus forecasts.
The figure, above consensus forecasts of 72.5, was complemented by a narrowing trade deficit, as exports grew and imports shrunk.
But consensus forecasts call for growth to accelerate to 8.1% in 2006, thanks to product improvements and brighter, more inviting stores.
Economists are acting as if the pace of growth has slowed, and many have cut their full-year consensus forecasts in response.
In the U.S. the economic recovery has surprised with its strength since last fall, just about every economic report exceeding consensus forecasts.
Industrial output rose 9.6% in October and retail sales were up 14.5%, both higher than the prior month and above consensus forecasts.
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We also ranked companies on their consensus forecasts for long-term earnings growth.
Consensus forecasts call for a rise of around 160, 000 to 166, 000 in non-farm payrolls, with the jobless rate expected to remain at 7.6%.
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The majority of respondents thought the Thomson Reuters consensus forecasts for 16.9% profit growth this year and 13.4% growth next year were too high.
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Opportunities for great calls don't occur often, and you also have to figure them out long before they become obvious and incorporated in consensus forecasts.
Consensus forecasts must project higher profits over the next two years.
Consensus forecasts have been overly optimistic of late, but let's assume that the economists are right and we get 2Q 2011 real GDP growth of 2%.
However, the consensus forecasts for the Eurozone periphery over the next few years are dire indeed: austerity, slow growth, tax raises, pension cuts, and general economic unpleasantness.
Excluding mark-to-market effects from its hedging positions, General Mills earned 56 cents per share, in line with consensus forecasts and a 14% expansion from the third quarter of 2009.
Real GDP growth in China came was reported at 7.9 percent year over year in the fourth quarter, roughly in line with Barclays and consensus forecasts of 7.8 percent.
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Consensus forecasts for 2001 indicate that Turkey's gross domestic product will decline by 5%, annual inflation will be 57% and the government's deficit will be a bloated 16.2% of GDP.
The bank's profit number beat consensus forecasts by about 5 per cent, and the core tier one capital ratio -- a key measure of financial strength -- was also slightly ahead of expectations at 12.3 per cent.
"Coupled with the recent deterioration in the forward-looking indicators, it is becoming increasingly clear that consensus forecasts of trend growth this year are likely to prove too optimistic, " says Jonathan Loynes, chief UK economist at Capital Economics.
The combination of robust emerging markets, which possess low computing saturation, the requirement to accelerate Internet infrastructure and revitalized developed economies should result in computer units and revenues well above consensus forecasts each of the next several years.
Strip this out, they say, and consensus GDP forecasts of 1.1% would have been achieved.
Consensus growth forecasts (according to Bloomberg) have been revised down by 0.75 percentage points on average since mid-2012.
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The risk premium is thus, he suggests, also the market's best guess of the risk and opportunities attached to consensus profit forecasts.
Energy companies struggled to impress investors in the first quarter beating consensus earnings forecasts by just 2.6%, versus 6.2% for the broader index excluding financials.
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The one-month earnings revision ratio for the MSCI Japan index, which compares increases to consensus earnings forecasts against reductions, was most recently recording more than two upgrades for every downgrade.
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