market forecast
forecast
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈfɔːkɑːst/usforecast | forecasted | forecast | forecasted
to judge what is likely to happen in the future, based on information you have now:
forecast a drop/growth/rise in sthThe company still forecasts a 2% growth in house prices next year.
forecast profits/revenue/salesAnalysts forecast profits of €8.8m this year.
be forecast to be sthOperating profits are forecast to be below previous expectations at $3m.
forecast thatThe Chancellor is forecasting that inflation will remain on target at 2.5% in each of the next three years.

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Ministers, with reason, remained sceptical of the accuracy of long-term forecasts and the political inflexibility they were designed to encourage.
We conclude that it is important to account for both nonlinearity and the behavior of monetary aggregates when forecasting inflation.
The model then reasonably forecasts the future evolution of executive and public employment given the current observed situation for our three countries.
Although forecasted salary growth rates and deferred compensation appear to be underestimated, forecasted salaries demonstrate little bias for lower-paid public employees.
Agents form forecasts of the rate of return to capital assets using least-squares autoregressions on past data.
The output-money models are only slightly better than the univariate models, and their event-probability forecasts from the late eighties onward are erratic.
However, these forecasts were not realised, further increasing the sense of surprise.
Ominous forecasts about our graying population and the next recession.
Table 1 presents the correlation matrices, means, and standard deviations for the models forecasting externalizing and internalizing symptoms.
However, the means that are optimal relative to squared-error loss are not too far from the actual values being forecasted.
Rolling forecasts are forecasts made on the basis of the most recent fraction of the observations available in the sample size.
Indeed, as unfolded later in this study, the market dynamics is a result of complex interaction between changing forecasts and investor ratios.
Simulations of the adaptive belief system give rise to endogenous switches between forecasts at intervals of varying length.
Thus, we thought about ways to improve the accuracy of our forecasts.
In fact, parameter stability is desirable in order to obtain good forecasts.
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budget forecast
The amount by which metropolitan authority spend has exceeded their budgetforecast for 2000–01, 2001–02 and 2002–03 is as tabled.
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