The bigger the pent-up demand, the bigger the payoff to an improvement in expectations.
Across the Arab world, demography, technology and communications have sparked a revolution in expectations.
Once people sense inflation is slipping out of control, changes in expectations can quickly become self-fulfilling.
Beyond the third quarter, the bigger worry lies a year out, in expectations for 2013.
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After consulting with various experts, Ashmore determined to hold the silver in expectations that prices would increase.
The cautious optimism that companies have highlighted has also been reflected in expectations for a notable acceleration in 2H growth.
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Jonathan McQuade, Director of Business Management at the Ensemble Practice, says another reason for the shortage is a disparity in expectations.
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Prices factored in expectations that outstanding values would decline and the bonds' weighted average lifetimes would fall short of their official maturity dates.
What could change the prospect of outflows, however, is "any increase in expectations of rate hikes by the Fed or the ECB, " Mr. Diviney added.
The game also needs to meet built-in expectations from the community.
It then began factoring in expectations for great first quarter earnings.
For example, market share is a critical driver for RIM, and a slight change in expectations can cause large declines to our estimate for RIM stock.
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For the technology sector, the change in expectations is more dramatic, from a forecast that first-quarter profits will grow by 15.2% to predictions of an 18.5% decline.
"This month's retreat was driven primarily by a sharp decline in expectations, although consumers were also more pessimistic in their assessment of current conditions, " said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board's economic indicators.
Ghai notes that he has been cautious on the provider of enterprise wireless networking gear ahead of an expected upgrade cycle in expectations that a shift to the higher speed 802.11ac standard could cause a pause in the market.
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"We were already predicting the lowest growth rate ever, and we decided to take that down further, " says Murray Aitken, a senior vice president at IMS. He said that the overall economic climate was the main reason for the new cut in expectations.
Q2 2010 earnings beat expectations by 8% as a result of the modest changes in consensus expectations in comparison to the size of the earnings beats.
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Nevertheless, the Arizona senator has been moving up in recent Iowa political polls, creating a curious situation for a campaign that is working overtime to lower expectations in Iowa even as it raises expectations in New Hampshire.
Yes, people bought more than a year ago, but their consumption came in below expectations in several districts.
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Bond markets are signalling a worrying rise in inflation expectations in the euro area as well as in America.
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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.
The United States is experiencing an evolution in its expectations of corporations and their responsibilities in society.
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In corporate news this week, retailer Express (EXPR) announced that its third quarter earnings would come in below expectations due to weak sales trends in September.
Personal spending increased 0.8% in July, above consensus expectations of 0.7%, while personal income rose 0.3%, in line with expectations.
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The videos, each one about a dozen minutes in length, meet expectations in the sense that they are not really about anything.
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The index was predicted to ease by less than two points from 5.3 in July, but in the event a sharp downturn in the expectations gauge between both private and institutional investors caused a dramatic slump in the index to negative 13.5 and the lowest reading since September 2009.
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Rather than ratcheting up expectations ahead of the launch Microsoft Windows 8 in late October, the industry is slashing expectations in the face of macro weakness in Europe and elsewhere.
Wales took the Grand Slam last year, their second in four seasons, against expectations in Gatland's first year in charge.
If it persists, the recent weakness of the euro may, in turn, raise inflationary expectations in the 11 countries of the euro-zone.
What is striking is that businesses appear to be lagging investors in downgrading expectations of growth.
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