Wikio - Predictions 2008

U.S. government: Up to 9 Atlantic hurricanes in 2008 (Today's Tribune-Review)

Thu, 22 May 2008 16:35:32 GMT

The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season should be about as bad as normal or slightly busier, with a good chance of six to nine hurricanes forming, federal forecasters said today in a new way of making predictions.

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Oil Supply Predictions (PoliGazette)

Thu, 22 May 2008 12:45:18 GMT

There are two divergent views about future oil supply in the market in the news, the doom and gloom and the relatively optimistic. Who to believe? Does it matter? Should the view to which we subscribe change our energy policy? ©2008 PoliGazette. All Rights Reserved..

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Fortune's Stanley Bing: You Read it Here First! $1000-a-Barrel Crude! (The Huffington Post)

Wed, 21 May 2008 18:54:38 GMT

With oil blasting up to $200-a-barrel sometime soon, here are my predictions for what life will be like when we reach $1000-a-barrel.

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African Dust Forecast May Help Hurricane Season Predictions (YubaNet.com)

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:48:10 GMT

As the official June 1 start of the Atlantic hurricane season approaches, forecasters are developing predictions about the severity of this year's season. For the first time this year, African dust may provide a piece of this puzzle.

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Leveraging Social Media To Create Social Commerce (Online Spin)

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:15:18 GMT

If you recall, way back in November of last year, I laid out my predictions for 2008. Among those predictions, of which I have to say I'm not doing too well, there was one for the "killer app" in social media -- and I want to revisit that topic because I'm still flabbergasted that no one has come up with it yet!

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Dial Idol and their American Idol Predictions (In Entertainment)

Wed, 21 May 2008 13:56:55 GMT

In the next few days all people will be worried about is who will win American Idol 2008, one thing is certain, his name will be David. Both David Cook and David Archuleta will go head to head to see who will be crowned the winner, and people will no doubt be betting on the [...]

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Visit the MySims Kingdom Forum (GameSpy Planets)

Wed, 21 May 2008 01:39:09 GMT

Are you interested in the upcoming Wii and DS game, MySims Kingdom? Do you have any questions, predictions, opinions, or comments related to it? Then...

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Prediction #8 Realized: One-Stop-Shop ETF (Mad Money Machine)

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:29:51 GMT

I made ten (really eleven) predictions on show MMM-092: Predicting the Future for 2008. Prediction #8 was: 8. A one-stop-shop ETF portfolio fund will appear that gives complete exposure to risk, reward, and diversification all for a low fee. It will include all of the SMILER components as well as some bonds, commodities, and even private [...]

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IT is surfing to success as investment set to rise (Scotsman.com)

Tue, 20 May 2008 23:28:28 GMT

SCOTTISH information technology companies have shrugged off predictions of economic gloom amid expectations that businesses are set to invest in IT and websites to ensure they

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Sale desktop-pcs grows still (Microweb News)

Tue, 20 May 2008 19:49:24 GMT

The sale of notebooks is fallen out expected in second quarter higher then. approximately all our predictions have the mobile growth underestimate, but suggested also that on a particular moment the growth there by the desktop-pc' s from would be, stilt senior official John Anton [...]

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10 ways your airline is going to change (MSNBC.com)

Tue, 20 May 2008 18:10:17 GMT

One day airline profits are up and on the next, bankruptcy looms for most airlines. For airline employees, change is really the only constant factor we can count on. James Wysong offers his predictions for the summer of 2008.

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WNBA Predictions (SLAM Online)

Tue, 20 May 2008 16:04:11 GMT

By Adrienne Goodson Whoa… preseason was bananas, just look around on WNBA.com, USA Today or any other sports forum and you will notice. The “Expect Great” campaign with Tamika Catchings, Cheryl Ford, and Candace Parker are constantly being played during the NBA playoffs and every newspaper from the Hartford Courant to ESPN.com are trying to predict the 2008 season. So I feel compelled to speak...

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Some of T Boone Pickens oil predictions are wrong (advanced nanotechnology)

Tue, 20 May 2008 15:01:00 GMT

T Boone Pickens has made various predictions about oil on MCNBC "Eighty-five million barrels of oil a day is all the world can produce, and the demand is 87 million," he said. "It's just that simple. It doesn't have anything to do with the value of the dollar." target=blank> Pickens founded BP Capital and has a 46% interest in the company which runs two hedge funds, Capital Commodity and Capital...

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No Respect, No Surprise (Beale Street Beat)

Tue, 20 May 2008 14:56:18 GMT

The first NFL Power Polls have been released and the so called “experts” have began to make picks and predictions for next season. These of course are meaningless at this point in time, but are borderline insulting to the team in possession of the Lombardi Trophy. Although the New York Giants go into the 2008 season [...]

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Be Like Parise (Kukla's Korner)

Tue, 20 May 2008 11:07:05 GMT

Welcome to the 2008 Stanley Cup Picks Contest. Make your predictions about the finals series, and you could win an official autographed Zach Parise jersey from Versus! more at BallHype…

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This Is England (Soccer Insider)

Mon, 19 May 2008 20:20:00 GMT

Two days until the European (aka English) showdown in Moscow: Chelsea vs. Manchester United. Predictions? I'll go with Man U, 2-0. Watch the cool promo:...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

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Dell breidt production from in Azie (Microweb News)

Mon, 19 May 2008 16:40:05 GMT

Dell exceeded the expectations of investors and analysts in the fourth quarter. The volume of trade was with 15.2 billions 13 per cent more high than in the same period of 2004. The predictions went from of 14.8 billion dollar. The profit ascended in [...]

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Non-predictions for 2008: Marking to market (Macro Man)

noreply@blogger.com (Macro Man) — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:02:00 GMT

Having been a sell-side researcher in the latter years of the last millennium, Macro Man knows better than most the folly of trying to make predictions and point forecasts. Amongst both analysts and risk takers, the temptation is that, having made a forecast, one selects one's facts on the basis of the forecast, rather than changing the forecast on the basis of the facts. As such, one finds...

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CFN posts its 2008 Bowl Game Predictions (Fanblogs.com)

Sun, 18 May 2008 15:16:42 GMT

There's something about the month of May in the college off-season that brings out the Nostradamus in all of us. Next up with the crystal ball: College Football News with their 2008 predictions for the bowl games and BCS games . A few highlights.... Champs Sports Bowl ... Virginia vs. Illinois Meineke Car Care Bowl ... Florida State vs. Pitt Texas Bowl ... Colorado vs. Rutgers PetroSun...

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predictions of what cullen will do in the budget.. (whoar.co.nz)

Sat, 17 May 2008 20:37:51 GMT

“..Fifty-nine percent of New Zealand taxpayers have a taxable income of $30,000 or less, according to projections to June 2008. Shewan said with an overall Leg 1 purse of $1.8b to $2.8b, the government could afford to deliver a social dividend, move tax bands upwards and cut the middle tax rate from 33c to 30c. He [...]

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