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outlook

[aut-look] / ˈaʊtˌlʊk /




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Tan cuts her 2026-2028 net profit estimates by 2.1%-13% to factor in the one-off goodwill impairment and a weaker NIM outlook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The gloomy builder outlook could be an opportunity for home buyers who can afford current home prices.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Exports have helped offset weak spending at home, but global trade tensions and uncertainty over AI investments are clouding its outlook.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The uncertainty around regulation has also clouded the technology's outlook.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Your letter was an attempt to explain your outlook on life, as you are necessarily affected by it.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

The dot plot reveals individual Fed officials’ interest-rate outlooks, but it was only the first draft of a project that was supposed to evolve into something more informative and better.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

While growth was strong across earnings, credit and margin outlooks, investors are still feeling nervous about the potential of a Fed rate hike and its impact on banks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Much of the current optimism comes from FactSet’s information-technology sector, in which 44 companies issued upbeat third-quarter profit outlooks that topped analysts’ estimates.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 4, 2026

Competitors in the athletic retail industry, including On Running, Under Armour and Columbia Sportswear, disappointed investors in recent weeks with mixed quarterly results and cautious outlooks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

In reality, I regularly observe in New Guinea that native societies there differ greatly from each other in their prevalent outlooks.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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