In other words, if the FOMC announces that it wants the Federal Funds rate to be 4 percent rather than the existing 5 percent, the amount of open market purchases needed to achieve this target is likely a range rather than a point estimate.
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Oppenheimer: In the past, we provided a single point estimate of guidance that was conservative, that we had reasonable confidence in achieving.
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In the past we provided a single point estimate that was conservative.
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In the past, we gave you a single point estimate of guidance that was conservative, that we had as reasonable confidence as you can have that we would achieve.
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But it has shaved nearly a full percentage point off its estimate of growth next year a reflection that after the spurt of growth in the first quarter of this year, the economy has been weaker than expected.
Brazil should grow around 3 percent next year, a conservative estimate at this point.
The point is that a qualitative estimate of the demand is around one billion shares compared to the supply of about 250 million shares.
As a reference point, his next highest estimate of smartphone sales was with Huawei, at 47.9 million sales.
Update if I correct for my math error, then the bearish estimate gave a 700 point downside to the Dow.
However, a key point is that they do not estimate this over the entire life of the account, but rather use an arbitrarily truncated time horizon to estimate the effects.
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To run simulations, Guillermo Owen of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, uses intelligence data from the US Air Force to estimate on a 100-point scale the importance a wanted man attaches to his likes (fishing, say) and priorities (remaining hidden or, at greater risk of discovery, recruiting suicide-bombers).
By dragging the trend line in the market share chart below, we see that a one percentage point increase in market share by 2016 corresponds to roughly a 2% increase in our price estimate.
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The 6.1% decline is an advance estimate that may be revised over the next two months (the advance estimate regularly changes by a full percentage point or more once the Commerce Department has more complete data).
Militant environmentalists have a point when they claim that economists put a low estimate on the harm from global warming and a high one on the likely costs of curbing emissions but this falls into the category of shying away from clarity.
Manufacturing output is surging and GDP growth could exceed the current estimate of 2.5% by a full percentage point.
This is one thing that economists of all stripes agree will directly affect growth, and a half percentage point, I believe, in growth is what economists estimate the payroll tax cut would provide.
In the above chart, if the market share declines by half a percentage point in 2013, this knocks around 10% off our price estimate.
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Both estimate that shipments of traditional computers dropped by a tenth of a point in the second quarter of 2012 -- not a good sign when Intel's Ivy Bridge processors and a wave of Ultrabooks were supposed to usher in a PC renaissance.
We forecast market share remaining stable for both currently but note that a hypothetical 5 percentage point increase implies 2.5% upside in our share price estimate for Intel and 11% for AMD.
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Dealers at such firms estimate that, tellingly, yields on samurai bonds rise about half a percentage point once they are traded in the secondary market.
With a crossover point of about 300 percent of FPL for those aged 30 to 44, we estimate that about one-third of those older than age 29 with incomes greater than 138 percent FPL will see higher premiums even after accounting for premium assistance.
The study mentions a 2007 estimate of 863 adults in the Hudson, but says most fish killed at Indian Point would be juveniles, and only "a very small percentage" of them.
Even a 50 basis point increase in annual growth of customers per restaurant beyond our projections would boost our price estimate by almost 3% assuming we hold the total number of restaurants and profit margins flat.
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The company said Wednesday that the U.S. economy likely added only 64, 000 jobs in November, an estimate that went unnoticed by investors caught up in the exuberance of a nearly 500-point gain on the Dow Jones Industrial Average .
Its best estimate for the timing of the re-entry would have seen UARS come in at a point well out into the North Pacific.
As the final estimate of the costs from hurricane Sandy will not be known for some time, a reasonable starting point is to understand how damages are calculated, Barclays Capital economists led by Michael Gapen wrote in a research note on Friday.
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