Despite this upbeat outlook, as long as inflation is weak (
which consensus forecasts for 2018 indicate is likely), a significant shift in the ECB's policy is hard to envisage.
Not exact matches
Notably, while previously criticized by some of these analysts as being too aggressive, this
consensus EPS
forecast,
which includes interest income, is now largely in line with our own
forecast of $ 9.60,
which does not include interest income.
While our
forecast for FY 2016 EPS is significantly above Wall Street
consensus today, in October 2014 so was our original
forecast for FY 2015 EPS,
which is now in line with the Wall Street
consensus.
Sales jumped almost 13 % to just above the $ 20 billion mark,
which was far better than the
consensus forecast among investors for just $ 19.4 billion on the top line.
The laser maker
forecasts revenue of between $ 350 million and $ 375 million for the quarter,
which is well above analysts»
consensus figure of $ 318 million.
The
forecast from a
consensus of 19 Estimize respondents has revenue in the quarter totaling $ 2.42 billion,
which is in line with Wall Street expectations and the midpoint of the range of company guidance.
Our BlackRock Investment Institute (BII)
forecast has long been more optimistic on growth than
consensus, but recently the
consensus estimates have caught up with the BII,
which strikes us as a good contrarian indicator.
We feel the restrained first - quarter GDP
consensus forecasts reflect the contrast between a domestic economy doing relatively well, and
which has spurred the Fed into action, and a less robust backdrop internationally.
Analysts welcomed the better than expected result,
which beat
consensus forecasts by around $ 10 million, and suggested that the full year guidance could be conservative given that the first tranche of cost savings will be weighted towards the second half.
Underlying net profit fell 14.5 per cent to $ 34.7 million,
which was above
consensus forecast.
Interestingly enough, the headline reading came in at 1.4 % year - on - year,
which is a tick slower than the +1.5 %
consensus as well as the ECB's 2017
forecast, also of +1.5 %.
If different groups of scientists have a public bet running on this, this will signal to the public that this
forecast is not a widely supported
consensus of the climate science community, in contrast to the IPCC reports (about
which we are in complete agreement with Keenlyside and his colleagues).
I stand by my original statement as an accurate reflection of current IPCC
consensus forecasts for expected global warming through 2100, though obviously I remain open to contradiction by relevant facts of
which I am currently unaware.
The majority of the warming, the amount that converts the
forecast from nuisance to catastrophe, comes from feedback
which is very poorly understood and not at all subject to any sort of
consensus.
«Also, the economy added 192,000 jobs in March,
which was below the market
consensus forecast but followed an upward revision of 22,000 jobs in February.