PC shipments increased 25 percent, meeting the company's earlier forecast.

It's six o'clock, the hour that Prospero earlier forecast would mark the end of his plan.

The company repeated an earlier forecast that it would break even in operating terms this year.

That compares with an earlier forecast of $1 to $1.25 a share.

As a result, the company said profit for the year before taxes and other expenses could fall short of earlier forecasts.

Next year, the council said it expected the economy to grow by 2.9 percent, down from its earlier forecast of 3.3 percent.

His estimate today was consistent with earlier forecasts he had made that covered only the next two years.

He says a price in the low $290's could be the norm now, up by $10 to $15 an ounce from his earlier forecasts.

It said sales in the period were most likely 9 percent below its earlier forecast.

The new projections are expected to show marked improvements over earlier forecasts.