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[fawr-kast, -kahst, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌkæst, -ˌkɑst, ˈfoʊr- /




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Kraft Heinz bumped up its sales forecast for the year and said its turnaround plan is gaining traction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Datadog shares are getting hit hard early Wednesday in light of a ho-hum financial forecast from the maker of observability software.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Looking ahead, Cava now expects to open 76 to 78 restaurants for the year, compared with its previous forecast of 75 to 77.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

That revenue figure for the third quarter amounted to 35% growth from a year before, “well above” the high end of the company’s forecast, according to Sherman.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Rain was in the forecast for tonight, his father said.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

For the current fourth quarter, Uber forecasts adjusted earnings per share of 95 cents to 99 cents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

The International Monetary Fund forecasts that Malaysia's economy will grow by 5.2 percent in 2026, partly encouraged by data centre activity.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Despite the slightly bleaker outlook, the group reported a 30-percent jump in profits for the July-September period, beating forecasts.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

It forecasts total shareholder distributions of around 61 billion euros over the 2025-29 period, or 11 billion euros more than in the business plan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Today’s issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Amazon forecasted overall revenue between $240 billion and $247 billion for the fourth quarter, bracketing the $244.2 billion FactSet consensus.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Hurricane Odalys, with 90 mph winds, is nearly 900 miles west of the southern tip of Baja California and is forecasted to turn away from land and weaken.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

The bank expects recovering supply from the Middle East and a ramp-up in Indonesia to outpace relatively soft demand, resulting in a forecasted global surplus of more than 800,000 tons in 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

A heat hazard is an official designation for an event where it is forecasted that temperatures will be more than 31C at some point during the race on Sunday.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The weatherman had forecasted a record high for the day of the meet.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

On markets: The stock market’s best forecasting tool says returns over the next 10 years will be dismal, writes columnist Mark Hulbert.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

STMicroelectronics is forecasting fourth-quarter revenue of about $4.15 billion and a gross margin of about 39%, above Jefferies estimates of nearly $4.12 billion and 38.3%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

However, the OBR also emphasised the difficulties in economic forecasting, highlighting uncertainty over the future path of inflation, in particular, which could turn out to be either significantly higher or lower than their predictions.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The medium-term outlook is more positive, with CRU forecasting up to 6 million tons by 2030 as new projects come online.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Against his bleak forecasting is set my mother’s cheerfulness, in retrospect profoundly willed.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood


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