Sentences with phrase «despite earlier forecasts»

With the threat of a state takeover looming, Philadelphia district leaders have adopted a $ 1.5 billion 1998 - 99 budget that ensures — despite earlier forecasts — that city schools will remain open the entire school year.

Not exact matches

Despite early signs of a bottoming out, Moody's Investors Service slashed its oil price forecast for 2016 to $ 33 per barrel, and also put 69 E&P companies in the U.S. under credit review for possible downgrade.

But despite two rate hikes and impending balance sheet reduction, the 10 - year yield has moved 15 % lower since early March while the dollar has been weakening — both contrary to many forecasts at the start of 2017.

The Conservatives were quick to use this as proof that they were on track to post a surplus in 2015 - 16, despite a warning by the Department of Finance that early fiscal results are not reliable in forecasting results for the year as a whole.

Despite what has appeared to be a big early dip in the extent of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean this spring, a suite of forecasts issued today by the leading teams studying shifting conditions around the North Pole mostly do not (quite) see a repeat of the extraordinary ice pullback in 2007.