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Trend Watching:

In GloboTrends, we believe that it is essential for investors to be aware of the global trends that can affect your business decisions.  There are underlying macro economic trends that can create a business opportunity (or kill one).  Pay close attention, and look for your chance to use them to create new business opportunities.... 

 

 

Table of Contents:

Futurists & trend watchers What direction is our economy heading? Mega Trends Using Google to track trends: Tech trends Finance & startup capital trends New Developments: Travel Trends  Emerging market trends Consumer Trends Geographical Specific trends Links

 

 

Futurists & trend watchers

 

 

Here is a list of sites that try to predict what is going to happen next....enjoy...

predicting the future 

 

What direction is our economy heading?

 

see our list/ discussion of economic indicators

 

 

Mega Trends

• underlying trends that are shaping our world today
• demographic trends

 

 

Using Google to track trends:

 

Google Trends, which shows how often a particular search term is entered relative to the total search volume across various regions of the world

 

Google’s “Insights for Search”, a beta service that analyzes a portion of worldwide Google web searches from all Google domains to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you’ve entered - relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time - gives an even better overview:

 

 

Tech trends

• tech trends to watch
• telecom trends

 

 

Finance & startup capital trends

• venture capital trends

• private equity trends

 

 

 

New Developments:

• upcoming trends we are watching  - check here to see what trends that we are watching that might make it onto the main page:

 

 

 

Travel Trends 

• travel industry trends

 

 

 

Emerging market trends

• Microfinance
• demographic trends

 

 

Consumer Trends

• consumer trends

 

 

Geographical Specific trends

 

• global trends
• Trends in Latin America
• Trends in Asia
• Changes are happening in China
• Trends in the Middle East and Arab states

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Links

• trends
• predicting the future
• predicting trends in foreign exchange rates
• Packenham model to predict policy changes
• Futures market
• forward contracts

• upcoming trends we are watching  - check here to see what trends that we are watching that might make it onto the main page:
• Industry Analysis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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