For instance, utility companies tend to trend upward in especially hot summers.

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Areas where timeouts are the norm tend to trend Democrat.

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Typically mutual funds is where we are looking at quite substantially right now for really one reason, and those tend to trend better with a lot less risk, so you know you can have market-like rate of return on high-yield-bond mutual funds with historically a third of the downside risk of the markets.

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Strikingly, changes in institutional investment flows tend to follow the same trend for some time.

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They tend to reinforce the current trend, whatever it may be.

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All will tend to see profit improvements if the economy picks up and factories begin humming above trend levels of utilization.

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