As well as making sense of what has happened over the past week, a news organisation should try to alert readers to what is coming next. Predicting the future with accuracy is, of course, impossible. The timing of military coups, mega-mergers, natural disasters and high-level resignations is usually a mystery before such events happen. But political summits, elections and central-bank meetings are generally set far in advance, even though their outcomes cannot be foretold. Some other events come with a little warning, for example if rumours mount of another round of bank bail-outs.
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