forecast
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The US is nearing its $41.1tn debt ceiling, with debt forecast to climb to about $64tn by 2036, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
It previously forecast adjusted pretax profit between 750 million and 850 million pounds, after reporting adjusted pretax profit of 852 million pounds for the year ended Jan. 31, 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Revenues were $187.9 billion, up 5.9 percent from the year-ago period as Walmart raised its full-year profit and sales forecast.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Weekly jobless claims totaled 206,000, down from the previous week’s downwardly revised 212,000 and slightly lower than forecast.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Dumbledore’s tone was conversational; he might have been asking for a weather forecast.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
"I have never seen an El Niño signal this intense in our forecasts."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Mike McPhaden, a senior scientist at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, had a similar estimate, telling AFP: "It's not inconceivable that 2027 may top out at 1.7C above preindustrial levels" if model forecasts bear out.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The brokerage cuts its earnings forecasts for ComfortDelGro by 8.7% for 2026, 12.6% for 2027, and 11.4% for 2028.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The dashboard also aggregates forecasts that put El Nino on course to peak at a 3.9C anomaly this November -- well above the 3C anomaly detected in the 2015 El Nino.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
No amount of making up shipping forecasts could stop me from thinking about it.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
Analysts forecasted revenue of $1.18 billion, according to FactSet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
"The hype is definitely here for the World Cup, it'll be here until the World Cup ends," he forecasted.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The designation comes at any event where the temperature is forecasted to exceed 31C at any time the cars are on track.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The company now anticipates spending between $125 billion and $145 billion in 2026, up from a forecasted range of $115 billion to $135 billion previously.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026
The weatherman had forecasted a record high for the day of the meet.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
"We should be clear that this is an unprecedented event", said Prof Adam Scaife, head of long-range forecasting at the UK Met Office.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The memory-chip maker outlines an ambitious long-term financial plan, forecasting average gross margins of around 80% and operating margins near 75% between fiscal 2028 and 2030.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Accurately measuring atmospheric density at these heights is therefore important for forecasting satellite motion and reducing the risk of collisions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
China's NMC issued a red typhoon alert -- its most severe warning -- on Sunday morning, forecasting "extraordinary torrential rain" in some areas of central and eastern Zhejiang.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Now the experts hustled to explain their faulty forecasting.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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