11.   Collins said he informed Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman only yesterday that he was cutting his forecast.

12.   Computer-related stocks also fell after Toshiba Corp. yesterday cut its forecast for sales through March, citing increased competition in the U.S. market.

13.   Crane said that earnings expectations are higher than justified, and that stock prices are likely to fall further as analysts cut their forecasts.

14.   Even so, the impact of ongoing concern about falling selling prices and thinning margins prompted analysts to cut earnings forecasts.

15.   Even so, analysts have cut profit forecasts for New World Infrastructure and are downgrading their investment recommendations.

16.   He added that analysts were cutting their forecasts for the first quarter.

17.   Gregory Melich, an analyst with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, cut his forecast for Chrysler sharply last week.

18.   In anticipation of them, several Wall Street analysts cut earnings forecasts for Chrysler last week.

19.   Japanese stocks fell, led by Hitachi Ltd. and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. after they cut earnings forecasts.

20.   Last April, META cut its forecasts for growth in mainframe capacity in half.