Announcing the measures, Ms Bratusek said she expected the budget deficit to rise to 7.8% of GDP this year, but was forecast to fall to 3.3% next year.
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It grew by 4.2% last year and is forecast to expand by 5.1% this year.
However, it cut its full-year profit forecast to 370bn yen, compared with its previous projection of 375bn yen.
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Indonesia's production this year is forecast to be around 230m tonnes.
Despite a near-quadrupling in the oil price since he took office (for which he can take some of the credit), Venezuela's economy contracted by 7.5% last year and is forecast to grow by less than 3% this year.
The site is expected to produce 183, 000 cars this year, with output forecast to rise to 250, 000 within three years.
You only have to look at the profits forecast for the year to see how behind we really are.
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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.
Net shipments fell 28% from a year ago to less than 54k, but the firm did reiterate its forecast for full year shipments of 201k to 212k.
Earlier this year, India lowered its growth forecast to 5% for the year to 31 March 2013, underlining the challenges it faces in reviving the sluggish economy.
The economy, which shrank by more than half between 2000 and 2009, has been expanding by more than 7% a year since then, with growth forecast to top 9% this year.
This year it is forecast to rise by 87% to 31.3 billion yuan.
Analysts looking ahead to this year forecast further gains in the industry.
The recession this year is now forecast to be short-lived and mild.
The firm said it expected its profits to rise to 50bn yen in the current financial year, with the yen forecast to remain weak.
The company, which designs and manufactures generators, hiked its full-year sales forecast due to the major power outages in the wake of the storm.
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The eurozone economy shrank by 0.1% in the third quarter of the year and is forecast to shrink again in the current quarter as downturns in the services and manufacturing sectors look set to continue.
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By contrast trade with Mr O'Neill's BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) was 3.9% of German trade in 2000, is just under 12% this year and is forecast to be more than 24% in 2020.
Quite apart from public displeasure at the entire political class, Japan is expected to be the hardest hit of rich economies this year: its GDP is forecast to contract by 6%, around twice the level of America or Britain.
He also cut his gross margin forecast for the year to 40.5% from 41.2%, while chopping his operating margin forecast to 15%, from 19%.
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Europe's economy is expected to grow faster next year, according to the latest European Commission forecast.
Deckers now expects revenue to grow 29% on a year-over-year basis, compared to its previous forecast for 22% growth.
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Thanks to its ongoing stimulus spending, which it is not proposing to trim, Germany's underlying budget deficit is forecast to rise this year.
Growth in gross domestic product, once expected to be 9% in the year ending March 31, is now forecast to be about 7%, still high by international standards but not enough to accomplish major objectives like rapid infrastructure development and programs to alleviate poverty.
The government may also want to give some momentum to any natural cooling that could come this year, given that authorities forecast the economy to grow 1% to 3% in 2013, potentially faster than 2012's 1.2% expansion but considerably slower than in 2010 and 2011.
Gartner recently cut its full year PC unit growth forecast to 3.4%, from 9.5%.
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That is less than predicted by Brazil's finance ministry, which cut its growth forecast for 2012 to 2% this year, down from its previous forecast of 3%.
In fact, second quarter GDP came in at 3.4% compared to 4.1% in the first quarter, leading Nomura to forecast lower year-end GDP growth for the R in BRICs.
After seeing Facebook vault into the lead in U.S. display-ad revenues last year, Google will take the top spot this year, according to a new forecast from market researcher eMarketer.
With a population of over 60 million, Italy -- the eurozone's third-largest economy -- has an unemployment rate of 11.2% with public debt to GDP forecast to rise to 128% this year, according to the European Commission.
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