21.   Lair is a guy who understands market trends and market direction and is arguably less susceptible to the collective delusions of grandeur from which some OEM marketing departments suffer.

22.   Local housing market trends had a negative impact in Miami and San Francisco.

23.   Mining company Minas Buenaventura SA shares ignored the market trend and rose.

24.   On Tuesdays, Bloomberg moves TAKING-STOCK-BLOOM, a feature about market trends.

25.   One of the reasons G.M. has fallen behind is its consistent inability to respond to market trends quickly.

26.   Pre-announcements of third-quarter earnings have been cited by some analysts as a potential indicator of market trends.

27.   Small software stocks can get buried by larger computer market trends and competitive advantages can disappear within months.

28.   Since investors will never buy once-a-month price readings for their stocks and funds, they might adopt another way of looking at market trends.

29.   St. Louis stocks bucked the broader market trend.

30.   St. Louis stocks bucked the overall market trend.