Forecast for OPE products: level in 2005, up in 2006.Forecast for OPE OPE - Office of Personnel OPE - Office of Physical Education OPE - Office of Planning and Evaluation OPE - Office of Postsecondary Education (Department of Education) OPE - Office of Procurement Executive OPE - Offre Publique d'Echange OPE - One Pion Exchange OPE - Open-Point Expanding OPE - Operational Planning Element OPE - Operational Preparation of the Environment OPE - Operator Product Expansion OPE - Optical Proximity Effect products: level in 2005, up in 2006--The 2005 Model Year (MY) forecast for consumer product shipments is about the same as 2004, according to the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI OPEI - Order of Prince Edward Island (Canada) OPEI - Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, Inc.). The forecast is up only 1.1 percent in walk-behind powered mower shipments for MY 2005 (September 2005-August 2005). Shipments of consumer riding mowers are expected to dip by 0.2 percent, and tillers are expected to increase by 1.9 percent. OPEI says these predictions reflect obstacles to national economic growth, such as the high cost of oil, federal pressure on interest rates and expected slowdown in new and existing home markets. OPEl predicts positive shipments growth for consumer products for MY 2006, with an increase of 3.0 percent in walk-behind shipments and an increase of 2.2 percent in consumer riders. |
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