Trends in the distribution of wealth can look very different from trends in incomes, because wealth is a measure of accumulated assets, not a flow over time.
"The impetus comes from individual designers, like Mark Jacobs, and from trends within the industry.
Many of the problems EMI is struggling with arise from trends in technology.
I have removed an upward trend, because for short-run analysis it is interesting to look at deviations from trends.
Chemical manufacturers are reporting tough conditions at home and little help from trends in Germany, which tends to set prices and provide the stiffest competition.
"That is certainly a break from trends of the past," said Ann Haas, the research director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
If you want to know what stocks will benefit from trends in private equity or the boom in online gaming then Motif offers a list to pick from.
More than simply extrapolating from trends observed in the 1960s, it tried to calculate "the complex and unexpected ways the future was going to be different".
Economists say the 1998 salaries were shaped largely from trends that existed a generation ago, when women were less likely to work outside the home or to pursue high-paying careers.
But, on some level, it is a reaction to the way the media spins arbitrary observations into trends: "Since the normcore phenomenon, K-Hole's relationship with 'branding' has changed," says Fong, suggesting they've stepped away from trends in general.
The ONS update, which covers statistics ranging from trends to do with unmarried families to, for the first time, figures for same-sex married couples, shows young men, as opposed to women, are more likely to remain at home.
