1.   Before, Quicken offered forecasts for only five matters, including saving for college and refinancing a mortgage.

2.   A Minnesota environmental consulting firm seeks to expand its services by offering mosquito forecasts, envisioning it will get bites from TV stations and companies that sell insect repellents.

3.   But they offered no forecast of when frustrated consumers might see lower prices.

4.   He declined, however, to offer a forecast for economic growth this year.

5.   Intel did not offer any forecast for the rest of this year.

6.   The ministry declined to offer a forecast for the October-December quarter, though, saying the output trend was too unclear.

7.   The picture had looked dour on Monday, when Cisco, the Internet infrastructure giant, offered a gloomy forecast for its next quarter.

8.   Investors have been unloading stocks for weeks as companies reported lackluster first-quarter earnings and failed to offer positive forecasts for future results.

9.   Investors have been selling stocks for weeks as companies released tepid first-quarter earnings results and failed to offer upbeat forecasts.

10.   Investors have been selling stocks for weeks as companies released tepid first-quarter earnings results, and failed to offer upbeat forecasts.