Although there will be periodic short-term recoveries in the yen of from 3% to 5%, the basic trend is set.

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With 179 new 52-week highs and 113 new 52-week lows on the New York Stock Exchange in a rising trend, the basic requirements were met.

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Some schools are now charging fees for certain classes or activities, a startling trend that violates some basic ideas about what public schools are supposed to do.

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But the trend of cloud computing is expanded beyond basic computing services.

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There are hundreds of technical indicators out there, and we use pretty much the most basic ones, which are price, volume, moving averages, trend lines and prior levels of support and resistance.

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The trend toward shareholding is all the more remarkable given that schools rarely teach even basic economics to non-specialists.

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"Our objective is to provide the basic infrastructure, planning and necessary management framework in creating satellite cities that reverses the current trend of unplanned development and urban congestion in most of Africa's growing cities, " says Tim Beighton, of Rendeavour, which is developing several new cities in Africa.

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