Our 30-year forecast for equity has been increased by an average of 0.2 percent since last year.
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Our 30 year forecast for investment grade bonds has been lowered by 0.2 percent since last year.
FORBES: The Portfolio Solutions 30-Year Market Forecast for 2012
Each year, Portfolio Solutions, LLC puts forth a 30-year forecast for stock and bond market returns.
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PetSmart (PETM) increased its fourth quarter profit by 31 percent, but issued a disappointing full year forecast.
The full-year forecast calls for EPS up 20.9% and revenues up only 1.7%.
Intel also withdrew its full-year forecast, and said it will provide an update when it reports Q3 results Oct. 16.
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The consumer products giant trimmed its full-year forecast though, reflecting higher materials prices that are impacting products like diapers and baby wipes.
On Friday, the German business-software company confirmed its full-year forecast, but business development in the first quarter fell short of analysts' expectations.
To them, a business plan and a five-year forecast are largely irrelevant.
Analysts looking ahead to this year forecast further gains in the industry.
If these forecasts both drop by about 10% from our end year forecast, they each shave off a few percent from our price estimate.
Accordingly, our 30-year forecast for equity has been adjusted downward by 0.1 percent (we had increased it last year over 2011 because of low valuations).
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Our 30 year forecast return forecast for bonds reflects these views.
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Jorgensen said the Internet company was not changing its full-year forecast.
It provides a five-year forecast of cloud services revenue worldwide, split into four business-size segments, four channels to market and eight geographical regions (see Figure 2).
Suntech Power this morning reported disappointing Q3 results and cut its full year forecast, as weak demand and sliding prices continue to take a toll on the business.
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Corporate executives give a range to analysts of what to expect--say, 15 cents to 18 cents a share and a fiscal year forecast of 75 cents to 80 cents.
Rachel Hatch is a Research Director in the Ten-Year Forecast program at Institute for the Future, whose mission is to catalyze the global community to think more systematically about longer term futures.
The percentage of online games revenue derived from MMORPGs has declined in the past several years, but the combined massively multiplayer online games segment of MMORPGs and advanced casual games will remain critically important throughout our 5-year forecast period.
The recent eight year forecast published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 4.19 million jobs will be gained in the US in professional and business services, followed by 4 million health care and social assistance jobs, while 1.2 million will be lost in manufacturing.
While Activision has raised its full-year forecast promising a "record-setting" year, EA has had to lower its outlook for the current period blaming its latest Medal of Honor and NBA Basketball games for having "disappointed" and its Star Wars: The Old Republic role-playing title for having "underperformed".
The number of users with mobile devices is expected to climb to 5.2 billion in 2017 from 4.3 billion in 2012 and traffic across high-speed 4G networks will grow 40-fold during that time, according to a five-year forecast for mobile traffic data compiled by Cisco Systems and released today.
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It comes as the airline shares rose 10% on Wednesday as it increased its full-year profit forecast.
Boeing raises its full-year profit forecast this morning, saying it expects deliveries of commercial airplanes to grow.
The disclosure of that investment came just a day before HP lowered its full-year earnings forecast.
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However, it cut its full-year profit forecast to 370bn yen, compared with its previous projection of 375bn yen.
BBC: Honda sees quarterly profits rise but cuts annual forecast
In corporate news this week, Dollar General (DG) reported that profits were higher, and raised its full year earnings forecast.
It is the second time in a space of four months that the firm has lowered its full-year profit forecast.
BBC: Honda sees quarterly profits rise but cuts annual forecast
The Portfolio Solutions 30-Year Market Forecast is provided for informational purposes only and not intended to be used for short-term market timing.
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