But, ultimately, Budget day is all about the Chancellor: Raising as much short term cheer for his party as possible and setting, or maintaining, some long term direction.
The long-term direction of gold prices will also be determined by the direction of the world economy.
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It claims that "with appropriate education" the public could develop "in the general direction long favoured by legal experts and the judiciary".
The report claims that "with appropriate education" the public could develop "in the general direction long-favoured by legal experts and the judiciary".
Beyond the short-term speculative trading, market participants agree that it is the fate of the economy that will determine the market's long-term direction.
Further, several analysts said the long-term direction of copper and other base metals will hinge more on the economies and demand from major consuming nations.
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That reorganization was also deemed a long-term direction change for Intel.
The money needs to invest in the direction of long term trends, not in outdated, obsolete historic assets.
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In his day the long-term strategic direction seemed to be away from public service and towards more commercial fare.
St Johnstone shelled a lot of early long balls in the direction of Hibs full-backs Callum Booth and Towell but the teenagers coped with the pressure without too much trouble.
There has been a century-long drift in the direction of the higher and higher percentage of people who don't have everything that they need in order to live and I think that that percentage will grow.
You can just run into it as long as you get the direction correct and hit it fairly centrally.
Technology advances in the last few years have replaced older, faster-moving windmills with new, self-monitoring turbines whose 150-foot long blades adjust to wind direction and speed.
But the pendulum of capital-markets regulation in America has swung in one direction for so long that when it started to reverse course, it was bound to do so with a vengeance.
U.S. fiscal policy has been going in the wrong direction for a very long time.
America's scientific community, which had long been pushing for a new direction in science education, seized on the national mood to rejuvenate the curriculum.
"Change on the Supreme Court happens in long slow arcs, but the direction of this arc seems pretty clear, " said Stanford Law School Dean Larry Kramer.
"Sir George is right to argue that we need to set a clear direction to encourage the long-termism we badly need in British business, " he said.
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There are going to be differentiated responses between the two countries because of our different positions, but we are aiming at the same direction, which is long-term sustainable growth that puts people to work.
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They're in it for the long haul and don't take direction from the left.
And as long as public opinion flows in that direction, politicians are unlikely to try to swim upstream.
United striker Fraizer Campbell, 20, moved in the other direction on a season-long loan deal and Spurs decided not to pursue their complaint to the Premier League accusing United of chasing Berbatov.
The huge country may be able to take a great deal more messiness, so long as it keeps moving in a prosperous direction.
Tom Andrews, from the marketing consultancy The Value Engineers, agrees that the change in direction could be a success as long as the company does not take a leap too far.
Long-period comets can arrive from any direction in space and are believed to originate in the Oort cloud (a reservoir of comets encircling the sun, the existence of which was worked out at the same time as the Kuiper belt by Jan Oort, a Dutch astronomer).
With short positions offsetting your long ones, you will be indifferent to the direction of the stock market.
As any portfolio manager knows, however, if you stick with a strategy long enough, eventually things will turn in your direction.
Many researchers would like a long period with the data all pointing in one direction before calling the exit definitive.
As long as the reaction is strong enough in one direction or the other, a straddle offers a trader the opportunity to profit.
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