In October, Fitch Ratings upgraded Cyprus to BB with a positive outlook: «The economic recovery has broadened, and GDP growth has consistently outperformed
forecasts over recent years.
Of more importance for current purposes,
the forecasts over recent years seem to be too high for two reasons.
Not exact matches
A
recent forecast by the Conference Board of Canada suggests that indebted households will restrain spending
over the next few
years, contributing to slow economic growth.
And water is a looming crisis: a
recent McKinsey report
forecasts that global water demand will rise 40 %
over the next 20
years.
Inflation is currently running at
over 4 per cent, and likely to be around that level for another
year or so, on our most
recent forecasts, before it comes down.
One
recent forecast for the Phoenix housing market suggests that home prices will rise at a more modest, but historically average, pace of around 3.5 %
over the next
year.
The Bank's quarterly survey of financial market economists suggests that near - term inflation expectations have changed little
over recent months, with the median
forecast for inflation
over the
year to June 2004 at 2.2 per cent in November, compared with 2.3 per cent in August.
The statement did not mention the extra government stimulus that has been added since the Fed's most
recent economic
forecast in the form of a $ 1.5 trillion tax cut and a budget agreement that will add $ 300 billion in government spending
over two
years.
Lee has garnered much attention in
recent months with his distinctly bullish
forecasts for bitcoin
over the coming
years; and he believes that the world's thirst for cryptocurrencies is growing at gold's expense.
Nestle doesn't expect raw material prices to rise further this
year, despite a
recent FAO report that
forecasts an increase of
over 2 per cent in the world food import bill in 2006.
In other words,
over 98 percent of
forecasts show CO2 emissions as high as we have had in
recent years leading to more of a temperature increase.»
Child Trends, Inc.; Washington D.C. $ 283,000
over two
years to investigate children's access to highly - qualified ECE professionals and identify potential disparities in certain geographic areas, analyze the effects of
recent state - level workforce policies and funding decisions on the ECE workforce in two states, and develop a
forecasting tool that state leaders can use to estimate the potential cost / time factors required to implement ECE workforce development policies.
A
recent report stated that last
year the industry made
over $ 194 million, was valued globally at $ 748 million and is
forecast to make a whopping $ 500 + million by 2018 with a global value of around $ 1.9 billion.
The graph below (high - resolution copy) shows the range of the
forecasts for early September, the point when the sea ice typically reaches its minimum extent, compared to
recent years and the average
over the period of precise satellite measurement.
«The mounting evidence
over the most
recent years demonstrates that the
forecasts for global warming were greatly exaggerated.
I want to discuss the
recent Kaufman study which purports to reconcile flat temperatures
over the last 10 - 12
years with high - sensitivity warming
forecasts.
The most
recent Lazard Levelised Cost of Storage Analysis from November last
year forecast that lithium - ion capital costs could fall by 36 %
over the next five
years, but warned that further cost reduction efforts should be focused on balance of system, components and other costs such as planning and permitting.
The first point to make is that if asked to
forecast the next twenty
years observation from temperature anomaly time series most of us would do as Tom Scharf suggests — lay down a ruler
over the
recent past and extrapolate.
Finder.com.au's most
recent survey has seen its end of
year BTC price
forecast by revised by
over 25 % — now estimating that bitcoin will be approximately $ 21,500 USD by January 2019.
Recent forecasts for the real estate market in Atlanta suggest that home prices might rise more slowly
over the coming months, compared to the last couple of
years.
A
recent forecast for the Phoenix, Arizona real estate market suggests that home prices will rise more slowly
over the coming months than they have
over the last couple of
years.
A
recent housing market
forecast for Miami, Florida predicted that home prices could level off
over the months ahead, following a
year of average growth.
One
recent forecast for the Phoenix housing market suggests that home prices will rise at a more modest, but historically average, pace of around 3.5 %
over the next
year.