Sentence examples for softer trend from inspiring English sources

Japanese stocks bucked the softer trend in Asia, closing up 1.8 percent to reach a one-week high, as data showed Japan's exports rose in May at their fastest annual rate in more than two years.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index was flat as strength among Internet-oriented issues offset a softer trend for hardware stocks.

Weaker S&P futures indicate a negative opening in New York, and a softer trend in international markets is also likely to spill over to Wall Street when trading gets under way at 9 30 AM EST.

"We are looking at a very soft trend in capital spending in the coming months," said Millan Mulraine, a senior economist at TD Securities in New York.

"I think what you are seeing is a continuation of a very soft trend," said Michael Feroli, chief United States economist at JPMorgan Economics.

A Soft Trend is a trend that "might" happen.

That means you can change or influence a Soft Trend.

This is not a speculation, or an assumption that is subject to changing factors -- what I call a "Soft Trend".

A related soft trend is which companies will create and implement these apps (a much more uncertain proposition).

The extinction of the physical office is a Soft Trend -- it is not a future fact -- but the increasing importance of the virtual office is a Hard Trend, and it will continue to rapidly increase on a global level.

A hard demographic trend is the aging of the baby boomers, while a soft trend relating to this hard trend is whether companies will systematically collect and share the knowledge that those boomers possess before they punch the clock for the last time.