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Test Your Prediction Skills

How will consumer confidence, discount retailing and figure skating turn out?

Send predictions to crystalball@wsj.com by midnight Sunday, with your full name, city, state and phone number.

[Crystal ball]

• Is the U.S. consumer's mood still improving? On Tuesday, the Conference Board releases its consumer-confidence survey. The consensus: It will inch up to 56.0, from 55.9 in January. Tell us your number.

• Discounter Target has been reversing its wobbly profit results, partly by Wal-Mart-like expansion into grocery sales. Analysts expect Target to report a robust $1.16 per share in its earnings report Tuesday. What's your estimate?

• In the Olympics, will U.S. ice-dance champs Meryl Davis and Charlie White take gold in the Monday event?

The winner of last week's contest was David Gillerman of Tarzana, Calif. He nailed the 6% increase in housing starts for January and that skier Lindsey Vonn would take the gold for the women's downhill. He was off only on predicting Whole Foods Market's earnings.

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