Another small company that crushed analyst forecasts for the quarter is Acme Packet (APKT, 27) .
Forecasts this year are for real GDP growth of 7%, single-digit inflation and continued increases in real wages.
The Urban Age Institute forecasts 27 "mega-cities"--those with 10 million or more people--by 2015.
Look at the earnings forecasts from Thomson First Call, the authoritative database of analyst reports.
Already prices are down some 10-15%, with forecasts of a bigger crash around the corner.
Most forecasts have consumers doing most of the heavy lifting in 2013 as well.
Meanwhile, sales have come in below forecasts, declining 0.2%, while analysts had expected 0.5% growth.
Citigroup analyst Bonnie Herzog forecasts strong growth abroad, ranging from Asia to Europe to the Mideast.
This is a steep 4.6 times the 11% in growth in earnings that IBES forecasts.
The most recent report, dated November 2010, includes spending forecasts going out to 2016.
In other words, bear markets lead to bearish forecasts that have little predictive value.
Also, for the first time since September, the double-dip forecasts are again hitting the financial airwaves.
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Though they may eventually be correct, recessionary forecasts ahead of the fact are rarely right.
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Leading economic indicators and the Philadelphia Fed business survey both came in below forecasts.
The most recent forecasts had nuclear energy equivalent to two Saudi Arabias by 2035.
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For years, Apple under Steve Jobs, ridiculously lowballed quarterly forecasts on revenues, gross margins and profitability.
But it was taken as a positive because it was not as bad as forecasts.
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Richard Peterson, an analyst at Thomson, forecasts that 300 companies will go public this year.
The makers will all build too much tablet inventory based upon their optimistic internal forecasts.
The pie chart presents company forecasts as to when production with return to pre-disaster levels.
The institute said that its early forecasts had a margin of error of 0.1-0.2 percentage points.
But he was forced to slash growth forecasts and revise up those for national debt.
He forecasts continued recession for all of the region's major economies except China and India.
Since April, banks, including Goldman Sachs, UBS, Lehman Brothers and Citigroup, have raised forecasts for aluminum.
Schering posted quarterly earnings per share of 12 cents, 2 cents more than analyst forecasts.
Fortune reporter Philip Elmer-DeWitt compiles forecasts on Apple from sell-side and independent analysts.
That has handset manufacturers studying color psychology, investing in materials research and consulting color forecasts.
But experts say the company will have plentiful inventory thanks to its careful forecasts.
Several analysts lowered earnings forecasts as product delays and slowed consumer spending reduced sales.
His political views and forecasts will also strike a resounding chord with those he leaves behind.
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