1.   As a result, most analyst were not adjusting profit predictions for the companies despite the better-than-expected results.

2.   Finding profit predictions hard to trust and valuations easy to doubt, many investors questioned both parts of that equation.

3.   The declining profit predictions are hardly limited to the tech sector.

4.   Economics Minister Hans Wijers has asked Fokker for more information about its long term profit predictions and future position.

5.   But JT revised upward both sales and pre-tax profit predictions due to brisk sales overseas and domestic cost-cutting efforts.

6.   Milk groups were weak after they said they would have to cut their profit predictions following a rise in the price of incoming milk.