1.   Even as investors forecast a rate cut, the government is predicting an acceleration in economic growth later this year, boosting company earnings.

2.   Investors had forecast the central bank would cut interest rates in the first half of this year and possibly within the first quarter.

3.   Mortgage bonds fell with U.S. Treasury bonds amid concern rising yields will make it harder for investors to forecast when their securities will be redeemed.

4.   Some investors forecast more losses if the dollar holds its gains.

5.   The plunge in currency prices are making it difficult for investors to accurately forecast how companies are being hurt.

6.   To be sure, some investors are forecasting that yields will keep climbing this year as a strengthening economy heightens the risk inflation will accelerate.

7.   Investors forecast irregular movements for the dollar throughout the week as they awaited US growth figures for the second quarter due out Friday.

8.   Some investors forecast the slump would continue after trading resumed on Monday.