American Apparel (12, APP) sports the outlaw appeal and growth trend that make for an interesting investment.
They posted a 10% gain in net income Wednesday, beating estimates, and this growth trend should continue.
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But what if fuel demand continues on its existing growth trend and there is no improvement in ethanol manufacturing?
That drove the growth trend up to 2.4 percent, from 1.4 percent over the three months ending in July.
The long term year over year unit growth trend has been about 14-15% with significant annual variations in this number.
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Moreover, it has been continuously outperforming its 200-day moving average over the last three months, exhibiting a steady growth trend.
The best buy list is based upon disruptive technology in a long-term secular growth trend, sustainability, market leadership and valuation.
Our forecast for 2006 is 3.2%, which is also the long-term growth trend in the U.S. But this is a declining trend.
But with 3-D and digital, there's the start of a growth trend.
While we expect Cisco will continue with its gradual growth trend in network security sales, the Trefis member community predicts a slight decline.
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It is one thing for ordinary citizens to make faulty policy judgments based on projecting a past growth trend too boldly into the future.
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Reducing federal spending alone is insufficient to restore economic growth to anything approaching its post-World-War-II, 3.2% annual real-growth trend, much less make up lost ground.
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Azar Jammine, an economist at Econometrix, a consultancy, argues that the booms and busts of the apartheid era have been replaced by a steadier growth trend.
As the U.S. economy slows in coming months the focus of markets and voters will likely shift to recovery--how to get back to a strong growth trend.
In America, changes in economic policy have generally been so gradual that recessions and ensuing recoveries have simply brought the economy back to the same growth trend line.
The American historical experience has always been the deeper the recession, the stronger the recovery, as America has always returned to its long term, world leading, growth trend.
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Would anybody seriously deny that the Reagan policies of the early 1980s had such a significant effect on economic growth and employment that they changed the growth trend line?
The growth was more pronounced in Asia, which saw the proportion grow to 18% in 2012 vs. 8.3% year-over-year, and provides some indication of the growth trend in emerging markets.
Since the 1970s, through oil shocks, Middle East wars, terrorist attacks and disease outbreaks, the number of passenger-miles flown seems always to have snapped back to its long-term growth trend (see chart 1).
The retail sales growth trend continued on a steady decline in February, reaching an almost-flat figure of 0.1% growth in the three month period compared to the same three month period a year ago.
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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.
Well, the American historical record is the worse the recession, the stronger the recovery, as the American economy snaps back to its long term, world leading, economic growth trend, which entails actually faster than normal growth for a time to catch up.
And if the Reagan policies of the 1980s were sufficiently different from those of the previous decade to generate a growth premium, cannot a case be made that the policies of the Obama administration are sufficiently different from those of the previous quarter-century to alter the growth trend and impose a growth discount?
Maybe five percent below trend line growth in slow economic times and five percent above trend line growth in strong economic times.
And, of course I like to use a bar chart with the growth rates centered roughly around trend, to get a sense of how much total growth is sloshing about the trend.
Likewise, low growth that is below trend in an economy with a high trend rate of growth (perhaps because of a fast-growing labour force or high productivity growth) will feel like a recession and will cause unemployment to rise.
There is upside to Microsoft should the PC market be able to sustain its recent growth trends. (See Microsoft 30% Upside if PC Growth Maintains Current Trend.) We currently estimate a growth rate of roughly 10% for global notebook and netbook units sold going forward, implied by our price estimate that currently stands about 18% ahead of market value.
It called for both governments to "maintain a clear focus on tackling the barriers to growth" and support business through a prolonged period of below-trend growth.
The main conclusion from this demographic work is that, barring a new increase in female labor force participation or a significant increase in the growth rate of the population, these demographic factors point towards a further decline in trend growth of employment and hours in the coming decades.
As with technology, it is easier to see how deregulation might raise the trend of growth, rather than stabilise output around the trend.
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