Sentences with phrase «at forecasting»

Pension plans would estimate ability to meet targets by looking at forecasts of the underlying returns of their private investments, rather than a total return measure.

A few weeks ago I wrote a piece arguing that forward earnings estimates were better at forecasting future earnings than were the popular backward looking methods.

Looking at the forecast for next week and it appears my will to live is going to come back.

When the 2007 ethanol mandates were passed, lawmakers were looking at forecasts of rising gasoline consumption out to 2022 and beyond.

«Certainly looking at the forecast over the next week, it's looking like that heat is going to continue,» he said.

Hence, it is usually assumed by the beginning investor that to be successful, one must first become an expert at forecasting future market trends.

I'm so over winter these days that I barely even look at the forecast when it comes to dressing for the day!

Opening at the start of a new year, the exhibition then, is itself a ritual, an attempt at forecasting and influencing the course of 2018.

As a species, we're pretty disastrous at forecasting.

That means that markets and economic activity have demonstrated that — over time — certain economic cycles can do a fairly good job at forecasting both bullish and bearish market and sector trends.

The reason the article is mentioned is because the people who are experts at forecasting say the methodologies used were not good.

However I guess climate scientists should stick to hind - casting as they are terrible at forecasting.

Lately, though, no one bats an eye at the forecast anymore.

So, I say this is my last summer outfit and looking at the forecast right now it may very well be!

An enormous amount of evidence suggests that investors are generally hopeless at forecasting.

This is a series looking at forecasts given the general public (outside the literature) about climate.

Let's look at the forecast for the deficit.

As a species, we're pretty disastrous at forecasting.

With that said, let us take a look at the forecast for the upcoming week.

If the model is as good at forecasting as hindcasting, then the populations of (model - hindcast) and (model - forecast), for the same time period around day zero should be the same.

All academic research shows that we have pathetically little skill at forecasting the overall market on a consistent, year in, year out basis with anything approaching reliable accuracy.

In this week's issue, researchers take their first stab at forecasting climate a decade ahead with current conditions in mind.

«Law firms are notoriously poor at forecasting how much it will cost to accomplish a particular task; they generally low - ball it,» he said.

... internet advertising continues to grow at breakneck pace, at a forecast average rate of 14.4 percent annually between 2010 and 2013.

Here's a look at forecasts by the EIA for annual energy production from solar in the U.S. over many decades, courtesy of Steffen Christensen:

Statisticians, political scientists and data journalists have become pretty good at forecasting election outcomes.

The program is considered to be efficient at forecasting the market movements and trends before they actually start.

This article aims to explain why the club's net spend in recent seasons has appeared to be so relatively low, examines the story behind the infamous # 200m war chest and looks at forecast revenue for this season to give an indication of how much money will be available to spend this summer.

«Seismic waves from volcanoes provide complementary information on what is going on in the subsurface and are often more effective at forecasting eruptions.»

Peter Knegt at IndieWire takes a swing at forecasting tomorrow's Gotham nominees, and comes up with this list of likelys for Best Feature.

I've tried my hand at the forecasting business (relentlessly in some cases), so far be it from me to nitpick all this crystal - balling.

Therefore, a quick look at forecasts utilizing the normal P / E ratio as a valuation reference shows that future returns over the next year or two might not be that exciting if the 7.4 normal P / E ratio holds.

Analysts are forecasting the earnings growth to continue at about 7.5 %, and when you look at the forecasting graph below, the stock appears in value, (it's inside the value corridor of the five orange lines — based on future growth).

However, there is strong evidence that long - term normalized ratios (and other ratios including the Q ratio, market cap / GNP, and deviation from trend) are much better at forecasting returns over periods from 5 to 20 year horizons.

Looking at the forecast there was a rare stretch of ~ 5 days of beautiful weather expected for the West Coast — not a common occurrence and one we hadn't seen in our entire time in New Zealand to date!

As all of this is playing out, Congress is steadily trimming the budget for maintaining stream - flow gauges and other monitoring efforts aimed at forecasting flood threats.

These regional patterns are a result of regional ice thickness anomalies at forecast initialization.