augur well
The positive start bodes well.
This constant political wrangling does not bode well for the future.
The planets are making positive connections and this bodes well for projects.
He thinks the pipeline issues will be solved, boding well for the industry's future.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Predicting things and intuition
augur
augury
bellwether
betcha
bode
horizon scanning
hunch
inkling
instinct
intuit
premonition
premonitory
presage
prescience
prescient
telepathy
there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom
unforeseeable
unintuitively
unreasoning