However, nowhere is the tendency to extend trends in a straight line into the future without expectations of reversals more prevalent than in the world of investing.
However, the price at which they can sell that asset in the future depends entirely on the perceptions and expectations of other people , which may depend further on those of others in the future.
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Sometime in the future, inflation expectations will get ahead of inflation.
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The story is entirely different in the expectations game, the market in which buyers and sellers of stocks imagine the future and, on the basis of those expectations, determine the prices of stocks, bonds and other investments.
But they do so based on their expectations of future trends in supply and demand, not on whims.
Platinum and palladium, as well as other industrial metals such copper and aluminium, are well down from their highs earlier in the year as markets factored in softer global economic conditions, in turn weighing on future demand expectations.
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Eventually, borrowers and lenders will wake up to the reality that their expectations of future growth in profits and returns were too rosy, and consumers will have to reduce their spending to bring debt back to sustainable levels.
The modern Philips Curve model shows that pushing down unemployment results not merely in a corresponding one-time jump in inflation, but in spiraling, ever-increasing inflation, as consumers factor in the expectations of higher future prices.
With the nominal exchange rate held down by intervention, this could only come about through a rise in prices, creating expectations of future inflation and so reducing real interest rates.
The note indicated that Mr. Li had "lost confidence in his future, " and that "his expectations of what he could do at work and for his family far outweighed what could be achieved, " the Xinhua news agency reported, citing police.
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Persistent damage to economies' growth potential would result in a darker future of sluggish income gains and diminished expectations.
Given that Mr. Bernanke clearly has low expectations for improved employment in the foreseeable future, these comments raise the likelihood of additional funds being committed to the plan.
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This implies that we may not witness aggressive offers by the company in near future in order to gain more subscribers and our market share expectations remain at slight future declines.
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In a parallel to what multinationals have faced, unions are confronting shifting social expectations in fiscally conservative times that threaten their future.
What investors need to do, Mr. Gross argues, it to stay invested in the market, but temper their expectations about future returns.
But much other borrowing, by both firms and households, is linked to bond yields, which hang more on market expectations about future interest rates and inflation than on changes in short-term rates.
Having a valuable brand can increase expectations of future cash flows but only if the brand is utilized in innovative new ways or deployed on new products or in new markets.
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Most notably about inflation expectations, about what people thought inflation was likely to be in the future.
In theory, the market is fairly valued when stock prices reflect reasonable expectations regarding future earnings growth.
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Gross domestic product may be rising smartly for now, but the future looks gray--in the past few months, Polish output growth has come in below expectations, while the country's purchasing managers index has also been weak over recent months.
The latest figures of future expectations dropped to 96.4 from a three-year high of 97.5 in January, Ifo said, adding that the data was a "small warning signal".
In this view, every country is systemic because every rescue package sets precedents and expectations for the future.
The above statements and any others in this document that refer to plans and expectations for the first quarter, the year and the future are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties.
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We caught up with Hamm in February for this video interview, and you can also read my past coverage in Forbes Magazine about how Hamm got his start and a profile of him and his expectations for the future of the U.S. oil scene.
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