Sentences with phrase «make economic forecasting»

Because the bad economy had overwhelmed their stock picks and led to large losses in their portfolios, they decided to make economic forecasting a more important part of their process.

The Prime Minister should refrain from making economic forecasts because, as he should know from past experience in 2008, there is a very good chance they will come back to haunt him.

Paying too much attention to all the negatives in the economy tends to make economic forecast too pessimistic.

An economist once told me that in making economic forecasts, you have to give them numbers and dates, but beware of tying them together.

Duties often seen on Strategic Planning Manager resumes are helping top managers develop strategic plans, providing studies to executives, making economic forecasts, minimizing risks, and discovering business opportunities.

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By educating yourself on the general state of the economy, what decisions are being made at the national level, and how economic forecasts might affect your industry, you can put yourself a step ahead of others.

The Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), which has a stellar forecasting record, has steadfastly held to its recession call made just before Christmas.

As we have argued before (Time to Make the Budget Planning Process More Accountable, Transparent and Prudent — November 2010 www.3dpolicy.ca), we would strongly recommend that you use the Department of Finance's economic forecast rather than average of private sector forecasts, arguing that the Department's economic forecasts provide the most accurate basis for budget forecasting.

The fund maintained its forecast of 2012 economic growth at 3.5 percent, but it cut its forecast of growth in 2013 to 3.9 percent, down from the estimate of 4.1 percent it made in April.

The PRC sets ranges for the balanced asset mix and makes tactical adjustments based on bottom - up forecasted returns, relative valuations and an assessment of economic and market data.

These economic factors, as well as the rapidly evolving retail landscape, make it difficult to forecast accurately over a three - year period.

We have strongly recommended in the past that the Government use the Department of Finance's economic forecast rather than the average of the private sector economic forecasts (see «Time to Make the Budget Planning Process More Accountable, Transparent and Prudent» November 2010: www.3dpolicy.ca).

The Parliamentary Budget Officer and 3dpolicy have argued that the various components of nominal GDP should also be published in order that a proper assessment of the economic forecast can be made.

But more seriously, despite the difficulties in making accurate forecasts, we still need to understand as best we can why the economy is performing the way it is, what that implies about the economic outlook, and, how policymakers can respond to generate better outcomes.

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Freddie Mac's economic team made just such a prediction earlier this month, forecasting that 30 - year mortgage rates would climb to 4.7 % by the end of 2016.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

analysts were typically overoptimistic, slow to revise their forecasts to reflect new economic conditions, and prone to making increasingly inaccurate forecasts when economic growth declined.

Over the past 25 years «the greatest forecasting mistake economists have made is to underestimate economic growth.»

At that time, a second adjustment for «economic prudence» was made to the budget forecast.

He made very clear that if they were not needed to protect his deficit targets against errors in the economic forecast they would go to reducing the debt.

Powell has in the past expressed a view that Fed communication «should do more to emphasize the uncertainty that surrounds all economic forecasts, should downplay short - term tactical questions such as the timing of the next rate increase, and should focus the public's attention instead on the considerations that go into making policy across the range of plausible paths for the economy.»

This makes sense if we are to continue to use the private sector economic forecasts for the fall Update and the Budget.

Our initial, high - level review shows more economic stimulus and potentially stronger equity - market support than indicated in our current forecasts, which we made after the House passed its version of tax reform in November.

But the Fed's new economic forecasts, which include a median projection for the path of future increases, made no change to its December projection for three hikes this year.

Then finally — as I say, I'm probably leaving something out — there was the decision, which wound up a presidential decision because the people under him were disagreeing, to use the CBO macroeconomic forecast, even after we had done all this work to do our own economic forecast, for one reason: it was more pessimistic than ours, and would therefore make the budget deficit reduction job harder rather than easier.

Alistair Darling's Budget may have given «insufficient weight» to the risks of continued financial market turbulence in making forecasts for economic growth, a report by the House of Commons Treasury committee has claimed.

[75] His March 2013 budget was made when the Office for Budget Responsibility had halved its forecast for that year's economic growth from 1.2 % to 0.6 %.

The centre - left Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank made a significant call for an economic «plan B» prior to an expected slump in growth forecasts today.

And as we pointed out when Darling made his growth forecasts back in April at the budget, predicting the economic future is a tricky business - though we can compare his predictions with others.

The chancellor will be forced to reveal a grim set of economic forecasts in his first set - piece House of Commons statement, as the independent Office for Budget Responsibility makes its first projections of the impact of Brexit on growth and the public finances.

A company called Orbital Insight in Palo Alto, California, made headlines a few months earlier for using high - resolution satellite imagery to do real - time economic forecasting.

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Freddie Mac's economic team made just such a prediction earlier this month, forecasting that 30 - year mortgage rates would climb to 4.7 % by the end of 2016.

Last month, the federal government's fiscal and economic update contained average forecasts made in October by a group of private - sector economists.

TD is forecasting economic growth in the two to 2.5 per cent range in the third quarter, which Caranci says would make another rate cut from the Bank of Canada unlikely.

We can define periods of economic and market agreement and periods of discord by using timely variables, such as the New Orders series from the monthly Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Report, to forecast the probability, at any time, of agreement between the economy and the market.5 Typically macro-based measures suffer from a significant lag in reporting as well as frequent revisions, making them inferior to the immediacy of observing market data, month by month, day by day, even tick by tick.

This is for no better reason than people making market timing forecasts about where that currency may be headed short - term, based on random daily news and economic statistics.

[35] HEM's Macroeconomic Activity Module makes use of the IHS Global Insight model, which is used by government agencies and Fortune 500 organizations to forecast the manifestations of economic events and policy changes on notable economic indicators.

While many end - users have benefited by applying weather and climate forecasts in their decision - making, there remains ample evidence to suggest that such information is underutilized across a wide range of economic sectors.

You, I am assuming, correctly pointed out that the products of the short term climate forecasts are not of good enough quality to make them useful for economic interests.

Beyond making it clear that there is an element of the absurd in the IPCC's economic forecasting approach, these errors tend to inflate CO2 forecasts in two ways.

But a funny thing happens when one tries to make an economic growth forecast for 100 - year periods, as the IPCC has: Very small changes in assumptions make enormous differences.

These professionals determine feasibility, make forecasts on future economic trends, suggest improvement solutions, and produce reports which help management make the best decisions.

Typical job duties of a CFO include developing financial strategies, supporting organization objectives, developing compensation strategies, studying economic trends, making financial forecasts, evaluating financial performance, determining return on investment, generating financial reports, and advising senior management.

Highly proficient in utilizing strategic planning and decision - making skills in constructing economic models analytical tools to improve company production and productivity, and streamline automation of budgeting and forecasting processes.