OGUK's Alix Thom said the current levels were more in keeping with
long-term trends.
Over the past two years, we have made meaningful changes to our organization that have allowed us to pursue and execute on several new growth initiatives in parallel." The company does not believe the softer near-term outlook reduces its ability to benefit from the
long-term trends driving high-volume advanced packaging adoption, the
long-term trends driving semiconductor unit and LED growth or its ability to gain market share within its after-market products and services segment.
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The information will feed into the latest census of Britain and Ireland's breeding seabirds - a programme that started 45 years ago to identify
long-term trends in seabird populations.
Web searches could help track
long-term trends in pollen counts in areas without monitoring stations.
HSBC senior agriculture bank manager Bryn Edmunds gave a bank's perspective on the recent and
long-term trends in interest rates, exchange rates and loan facilities for on-farm investments.
In Japan, Russia and the US the CLIs point to slowdowns in growth towards
long-term trends.
The
long-term trends that characterise climate change can be interpreted only by analysing many years of observations.
The bank said that market valuation is only moderately above
long-term trends and argued that trends do not indicate that the housing market is set to collapse.
One assessment measures
long-term trends in achievement among 9-, 13-, and 17-year-old students by using the same basic design each time.
Given the
long-term trends of the energy market, it could be set for a period of growth.