Typically, stocks trend up or down for a while then consolidate in a trading range.
That drove the growth trend up to 2.4 percent, from 1.4 percent over the three months ending in July.
But two ways is just draw a trendline along the bottoms or along the trend up or look at the moving averages, Kate.
Within professional and business services, employment in temporary help services continued to trend up and has risen by 495, 000 since a recent low in September 2009.
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"The labour market data are disappointingly softer overall and fuel our suspicion that unemployment is likely to trend up gradually in 2011 in the face of below-trend growth and increasing job losses in the public sector, " said Howard Archer at IHS Global Insight.
While in secular bull markets the very long-term trend is up, in secular bear markets the very long-term trend (17 years typically) is sideways to down.
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All I know is the importance of value metrics and whether the trend is up or down.
That trend picked up the pace in recent years and it may need to be reversed quickly.
And stockmarket volatility can occur when the underlying trend is up, as well as now, when it is down.
If the trend holds up, it suggests that enthusiasm for social networking--as well as Facebook's growth--may be tapering off in Europe.
Another trend picked up by the Labour Force Survey is that newly entering foreign workers are getting younger, especially those from Europe.
In that way, they are following the "real-estate light" trend taken up by other big hotel companies, such as Marriott International Inc.
This material showed a positive trend (up 12.8 percent) to exceed 15 million timepieces, on a par with their value, which increased by 13.9 percent.
If a typical trend, up or down, runs for maybe 20 years, chances are you get only one complete up and down cycle in your entire investing lifetime!
For companies like Google and Microsoft, the trend opens up a whole new market for their technologies while creating a new competitive threat for traditional carmakers like General Motors and Ford Motor.
The broader index, which includes autos and building materials, also surprised positively, coming in at 2.7 percent month over month, seasonally adjusted, with its growth trend picking up steam to 6.9 percent over the three months.
In the meantime, the trend remains up.
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The committee said although production of CO2 is down 20% in the past two decades, the overall trend is up 10% because the cuts in production emissions have been outweighed by CO2 in the form of imported goods.
"The perception that the GOP does not care about people is doing great harm to the party and its candidates on the federal level, especially in presidential years, " the report says, noting a trend picked up widely in polls last year.
McKinsey makes the striking claim that "the ratio of UK household debt to disposable income would not return to its pre-bubble trend for up to a decade" - which implies that as we in the UK look for a return to more normal levels of economic growth, momentum is not going to be provided by consumer spending for perhaps up to 10 years.
Business leaders who are complacent with the past fail to catch up to the next trend, and keep up with the competition.
All evidence pointed to a doubling up trend and, in hindsight, it makes perfect sense.
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While the mid-term trend is still up, this increases the odds of a deeper overall correction.
If smartphones are becoming commoditized, what could be the new trend that shakes up this industry?
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Click Commerce remains in a very strong up trend, and institutional ownership, while still modest continues to increase.
Those with the strongest trend, either up or down, are then further analyzed to determine entry, exit and risk levels.
The bull market off the March 2009 lows ended in the first week of August 2011 when the up trend off those lows broke.
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We believe the major trend is still up, so this correction is providing you a great chance to get on board this Chinese blue chip.
This trend probably kept up through the beginning of this year.
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The trend of ratcheting up fees began in late spring of 2008, explained Anne Banas, executive editor of SmarterTravel.com, an online consumer travel publication.
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