1.   As an investment trend, distributed power follows a familiar pattern.

2.   But no investment trend lasts forever.

3.   But pledged foreign investment -- an indicator of future investment trends -- continued to fall.

4.   Charles Biderman, president of Trim Tabs Financial Services of Santa Rosa, Calif., which tracks investment trends, sees a red flag.

5.   Investment trends always get overdone, but this is no reason not to welcome all the gaming developers who want to risk their money.

6.   Liberty Financial has experience waiting for investment trends to turn around.

7.   The agency excludes orders from shipbuilders and electric utilities because they are considered too volatile to use in monitoring corporate capital investment trends.

8.   To longtime watchers of investment trends, the monthly cash flow data from the Investment Company Institute have taken on an ethereal quality.

9.   Machinery orders are a leading indicator of capital investment trends.

10.   On the flow of investments this year, she said there is a positive investment trend among the local and foreign investors to put money in the manufacturing sector.