Looking ahead in 2012 and 2013, CREA is
forecasting little growth in sales, and predicting that home values in most markets will be little changed or even down slightly from 2011.
Not exact matches
In another well - flagged move, the Bank of England (BoE) raised interest rates in the United Kingdom (UK) for the first time since the global financial crisis, following data showing third - quarter UK
growth was a
little higher than consensus
forecasts.
Compared with the Fed's September
forecast, «real GDP
growth is a
little stronger, the unemployment rate is a bit lower, and inflation is essentially unchanged,» according to an FOMC statement.
But crucially there is very
little evidence from the OBR's
forecasts to suggest that the impact of the fiscal consolidation on
growth has been larger than they
forecast two years ago.
To those familiar with the script, this will be of
little consequence; assume greater and deeper spending cuts, lower than expected
growth and a failure to meet projected
forecasts.
Morneau also said that with
growth a «
little lower» than
forecast, he believes the government made the right decision last spring when it added a layer of prudence to its fiscal outlook.
The upcoming holiday season promises to be an unsteady period, and some industry observers are
forecasting flat to
little growth over last year's performance.
- India and African countries are
forecast to have very
little emissions
growth, when in reality they will.
Somehow — I don't know why — but for climate
forecasts, Stephen's NCM seems a
little more logical than relying on historic tree ring
growth from strip bark bristlecone pines.
The models heavily relied upon by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had not projected this multidecadal stasis in «global warming»; nor (until trained ex post facto) the fall in TS from 1940 - 1975; nor 50 years» cooling in Antarctica (Doran et al., 2002) and the Arctic (Soon, 2005); nor the absence of ocean warming since 2003 (Lyman et al., 2006; Gouretski & Koltermann, 2007); nor the onset, duration, or intensity of the Madden - Julian intraseasonal oscillation, the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the tropical stratosphere, El Nino / La Nina oscillations, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that has recently transited from its warming to its cooling phase (oceanic oscillations which, on their own, may account for all of the observed warmings and coolings over the past half - century: Tsoniset al., 2007); nor the magnitude nor duration of multi-century events such as the Mediaeval Warm Period or the
Little Ice Age; nor the cessation since 2000 of the previously - observed
growth in atmospheric methane concentration (IPCC, 2007); nor the active 2004 hurricane season; nor the inactive subsequent seasons; nor the UK flooding of 2007 (the Met Office had
forecast a summer of prolonged droughts only six weeks previously); nor the solar Grand Maximum of the past 70 years, during which the Sun was more active, for longer, than at almost any similar period in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Solankiet al., 2005); nor the consequent surface «global warming» on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and even distant Pluto; nor the eerily - continuing 2006 solar minimum; nor the consequent, precipitate decline of ~ 0.8 °C in TS from January 2007 to May 2008 that has canceled out almost all of the observed warming of the 20th century.
This data points to robust user
growth but may be a
little more conservative than Gartner's recent
forecast that 75 % of US households will have a voice enabled smart speaker by the end of 2020.
Little more than a year ago, analysts
forecast luxury retailers would average annual
growth of 6 percent, making the sector resistant to the effects of a downturn (See story here).