The secular trend is confirmed by the significant increase in the percentage of people describing themselves as having no religion from 15% to 25%.

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The trends are much broader than this and although a single nuclear exchange or terrorist incident could skew the numbers, even such a horrific tragedy, Heaven forbid, would not skew the secular trend.

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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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The longer-term secular bull trend for gold remains bullish, and there remains plenty of fodder on the horizon to help trigger another explosive up move in the yellow metal in the days and weeks ahead.

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The longer term secular bull trend in gold remains firmly in place.

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In the wake of the last major sideways secular trend, U.S. stocks barreled higher in a major long-term secular bull market from 1982-2000.

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The longer-term secular bull trend remains intact.

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He says a big secular trend is affecting the PC market, which is the things you can do with ARM.

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We expect that print advertising revenues for the company will continue to decline until the end of our forecast period primarily because of a secular downward trend in US national print ad spending.

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