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...order backlog for its critically acclaimed Prius and predicts a 50% sales increase over last year, to 50,000 units. All told, hybrid sales are expected to more than double this year, to 100,000. That's a tiny fraction of the U.S. market for new-vehicle sales, forecast to be around 17 million this year. But it's still good business. Some Honda and Toyota dealers say customers are paying several thousand dollars more than the sticker price for a hybrid now. "If we could get all we could sell, it would be our best-selling model," says Steve...
...surpassed $1 trillion. Another analysis firm puts the figure at more than $860 billion - up from $456 billion five years ago. To be sure, hedge funds still account for less than 1% of assets under management worldwide. But a Goldman Sachs?Russell Investment Group study released in 2003 forecast that the percentage of European institutions investing some part of their portfolio in hedge funds will rise from 21% in 2003 to 50% in 2005. What's the attraction? Huge returns. In 2003, hedge funds globally returned an estimated 13%, with a projection to do the same this year. That...
...best-seller list for nearly seven years. Even the upstart South Beach Diet, which hit print just last year, has spent 53 weeks on the list. Magazines are jumping on the bandwagon too. Low Carb Energy will join LowCarb Living on newsstands nationwide next month. "No one could have forecast that this cyclone was coming," says Jim Capparell, publisher of LowCarb Living. He sat on his idea for nearly a year before acting. "If this is a fad," he adds, "I hope it's as long-lived as low fat, which took 22 years to come...
...Spahr posted a few promising asteroid locations on the Minor Planet Center website, before heading to dinner with a friend. But while he enjoyed his “only-once-a-year” night on the town, the alarms began to sound worldwide. An amateur astronomer forecast that one of Spahr’s potentials was rapidly approaching the sky somewhere over the Northern Hemisphere. Based on the information available, a 25 percent chance of a collision within days was quickly confirmed...
...time, you could have said the result was a well-deserved present to the Yale Daily News, which had taken the opportunity to forecast a basketball game that—and I quote—“shouldn’t even be close...