Lim at The New York Times wrote recently on the subject of market forecasting.
The fund managers rely on research, market forecasting, and the experience and expertise of their portfolio management team.
He found that this smoothed the extremes of the ratio and improved its long-term stock market return forecasting ability.
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The futures market is forecasting that inflation will soon go above 6.5%, the upper limit of the Central Bank's target.
Market predictions are common this time of year, but I avoid forecasting future market leadership.
Given the historic relationship between the risk premium and economic growth, the market is currently forecasting a growth rate over the next few years of about 1%.
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All the activity moved markets up Monday, but analysts are busy at the start of the week forecasting market movement after the Fed stops its QE2 bond-buying program in just over a fortnight.
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In 1997, along with my brother, we revolutionised the trends information business with the launch of Worth Global Style Network (WGSN), which went on to become "the fashion industry bible" (The Wall Street Journal), providing trend forecasting, market research and data for retailers, manufacturers and designers.
One is rooted in physics, the other in recognizing market realities instead of wishful forecasting.
Silver could still see some losses, but given the violence and volatility of that market, most market watchers remained wary of forecasting the next move for the metal.
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The first component is stock market fundamentals, which incorporates valuations and forecasting.
With nearly 5, 000 measurements for about 60 gurus, including bulls and bears and technicians and fundamentalists, they have achieved a critical mass in assessing the forecasting acumen of the stock market gurus as a group.
While that continues, low-cost PC cameras will become increasingly attractive to consumers, spurring growth of second- and third-tier vendors which are expected to challenge market leaders Logitech and Intel, IDC is forecasting.
The labor unrest had left many analysts forecasting a smaller-than-expected market surplus for platinum this year, with some saying the market could even become balanced if the labor disruptions lasted for long enough.
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Paul Dales, an economist at the forecasting firm Capital Economics, said the job market appeared to have stabilized at a low level of growth, suggesting it would take a further shock to push the economy back into recession.
Apple is an example of a company that was pretty good at using an alternative approach, since they had someone in Steve Jobs who was extremely good at predicting or forecasting what was going to work in the market.
Movie studios are readying a slew of BD3D titles this year, with IHS forecasting more than 65 titles for the U.S. market.
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Forecasting can help businesses plan for an uncertain future by identifying market forces, possible outcomes, and where you might be able to anticipate, influence, and profit from the inexorable flow of events.
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In 1949, while at Fortune, Jones published an article called "Fashions in Forecasting, " in which Wall Street experts insisted that it was impossible to predict the direction of the market.
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