It can benefit
from both cyclical trends and a secular growth story.
Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute, notes, «As designers and consumers alike continue to transition away
from cyclical trends, and instead focus on self - expressive colors that evade antiquated seasonal structure, we are seeing very notable non-traditional choices.»
There is a continued transition away
from cyclical trends, and instead a strong focus on self - expressive colors that evade antiquated seasonal structure.
Not exact matches
Evidence suggests that these
trends stem
from a broader post-crisis response that has both
cyclical and structural elements.
After the third longest bull market advance on record, fresh deterioration in key
trend - following components within our measures of market internals (see Support Drops Away) recently joined this extended, overvalued, overbought, overbullish peak, even as the S&P 500 hovers at the top of its monthly Bollinger bands (two standard deviations above the 20 - period average) and
cyclical momentum rolls over
from a 9 - year high.
From a sector perspective, we see investors are starting to rotate into more
cyclical parts of the stock market, a
trend that we would endorse.
Evaluates structural, momentum and thematic factors
from multiple global vantage points to define market regimes that exist between secular and
cyclical trends
Factors that could cause Blizzard Entertainment's actual future results to differ materially
from those expressed in the forward - looking statements set forth in this release include, but are not limited to, sales of Blizzard Entertainment's titles, shifts in consumer spending
trends, the seasonal and
cyclical nature of the interactive game market, Blizzard Entertainment's ability to predict consumer preferences among competing hardware platforms (including next - generation hardware), declines in software pricing, product returns and price protection, product delays, retail acceptance of Blizzard Entertainment's products, adoption rate and availability of new hardware and related software, industry competition, rapid changes in technology and industry standards, protection of proprietary rights, litigation against Blizzard Entertainment, maintenance of relationships with key personnel, customers, vendors and third - party developers, domestic and international economic, financial and political conditions and policies, foreign exchange rates, integration of recent acquisitions and the identification of suitable future acquisition opportunities, Activision Blizzard's success in integrating the operations of Activision Publishing and Vivendi Games in a timely manner, or at all, and the combined company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits and synergies of the transaction to the extent, or in the timeframe, anticipated.
Given how much yelling takes place on the Internet, talk radio, and elsewhere over short - term cool and hot spells in relation to global warming, I wanted to find out whether anyone had generated a decent decades - long graph of global temperature
trends accounting for, and erasing, the short - term up - and - down flickers
from the
cyclical shift in the tropical Pacific Ocean known as the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, cycle.
My opinion expressed elsewhere is that almost all the temperature changes we observe over periods of less than a century are caused by
cyclical changes in the rate of energy emission
from the oceans with the solar effect only providing a slow background
trend of warming or cooling for several centuries at a time.
Some might believe that this all suggests that CO2 appears to be a somewhat weak climate driver that is overwhelmed by natural variability, and that our international institutions appear to have inexplicably forgotten their climate history and not be aware that, far
from being «unprecedented,» the apparent
cyclical nature of our climate explains the current temperature
trends very nicely.
Throughout their study of climate
trends, scientists have to try to parse warming that is a natural result of exiting this
cyclical cold period
from warming that is perhaps due to man's influence.
+ / - 0.25 K deviations
from long - term mean
trends are indeed not unusual, nor are they fatal to the concept of CO2 - driven AGW since they can be traced to well - documented,
cyclical, pseudo-periodic ocean / atmospheric heat exchanges.
An upward
trend From my early academic career of decomposing times series into
trends, seasonal,
cyclical and irregular components, a
trend was defined as a long duration harmonic arc where the reversal has not yet been exhibited.
Each site's
trend exhibits a slightly different
cyclical pattern cycle
from others but most stay within a fairly narrow range over the decades.
The Second Supplement to Petition states: Adjustments that impart an ever - steeper upward
trend in the data by removing the natural
cyclical temperature patterns present in the data deprive the GAST products
from NOAA, NASA and Hadley CRU of the credibility required for policymaking or climate modeling, particularly when they are relied on to drive trillions of dollars in expenditures.
His unspoken argument is that you have to take a temperature
trend over complete cycle (s) in order to remove the
cyclical effect: «To remove the warming rate due to the multidecadal oscillation of about 60 years cycle, least squares
trend of 60 years period
from 1945 to 2004 is calculated ``.
Although it has been
trending between 1.8 % and 2.1 % during the past year, the number of units under construction as of 1Q11 is down 57 %
from its
cyclical peak in 1Q08.
Unsold inventory has
trended down
from a record 4.04 million in July 2007; supplies reached a
cyclical peak of 12.1 months in July 2010.
Data
from Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) confirms this
cyclical trend in furnishings and durable household equipment purchases.