Fisher has been independently judged to have outperformed all other market gurus in predicting broad market movements over the last few decades.
That price translates into a price to economic book value ratio of 0.5, which means the market is predicting a permanent 50% decline in its profitability, an awfully pessimistic assumption.
Honeywell also sees healthy growth in the helicopter sector, with its latest market forecast predicting between 4, 900 and 5, 600 new aircraft to be delivered over the next five years, with much of this anticipated in the next three years and right around the world.
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Similarly, not long ago many bond market gurus were predicting the end of high bond prices.
"We've stopped predicting market share goals, " said Ben Williams , AMD vice president of enterprise systems.
Meanwhile, the economy is merely catching up to what the stock market has been predicting for it.
Winchester notes a key difficulty in predicting market movements, especially this year: the fickleness of investor confidence.
The problem, as with most short-term strategies, is developing a compelling trading strategy capable of predicting market volatility.
The current slump is already three years old and market analysts are predicting that it will last at least another 18 months.
While predicting market volatility is not easy, Goldcorp expects costs will rise in this quarter and expects that trend to continue throughout the year.
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Fourth: Predicting that the stock market will increase following a recession is somewhat akin to predicting the sun to rise after the night.
For many years, well-known market figures have been predicting that bond yields will rise.
When it comes to predicting the market's bottom, all bets are still out.
The library already has received about 400 requests from researchers all over the world looking into topics ranging from the rise of citizen journalism to tracking vaccination rates to predicting stock market activity.
While that could produce the kind of downdraft in U.S. equities many market watchers have been predicting, it could also open the door for money on the sidelines to come in at lower prices.
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Of course, the market never makes any announcement on what it is up to, but seasoned and astute watchers try to divine from technical and fundamental clues what to expect at any given time, although predicting the market is not only very risky but nearly impossible to profit from.
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Also puzzling is that the Citi respondents have raised their cash allocations despite predicting strong stock market returns for the year.
Analysts have been predicting that the market was due to pullback, and it is expected to be relatively shallow.
In fact, investors predicting a bullish market may want to keep their losses unrealized in hopes that they become gains.
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Only six months ago, bookshelves were groaning with pessimistic titles, predicting bond-market crashes, more recession, banking crises and assorted other disasters.
Using a sample of 262 data points over a nine year period from July 2002 to August 2011, CXO found that the HSNSI had little power in predicting future stock market returns.
Well, not exactly the strong market everyone on the street was predicting.
On the other hand, research by Yale University Professor Robert Shiller, widely credited with predicting both the stock market crash of 2000 and the housing bust, has shown that momentum in home prices has staying power.
The average Trefis member forecast shows a more optimistic case than our baseline assumptions predicting that the iPod market share will increase from 24% in 2010 to 30% by 2016, compared to our estimates showing a market share stabilizing around 25%.
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With LG predicting a 3D television market in excess of 30 million units by 2012 and Samsung busily promoting its related world's firsts, you'd better believe that these powerful South Korean "chaebols" have their government's full support when it comes to delivering 3D content.
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Accounting scandals, corporate shenanigans and other market misdeeds: Two newsletter bears are predicting more trouble.
With 2012 being a presidential election year, the equity market becomes an all important factor in predicting the voting results.
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So October would be a very crucial month for the elections, if the market proves true to its tradition of predicting the winner.
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