âIn the end, however, it's up to me to decide if I will be a willing pupil at any given time, to decide if I have little enough belief in my own feelings to subjugate them to the ways of another.â âBut on many issues they have been just as ready to subjugate human rights to their political interests.â
Entrepreneurship tends to focus on identifying and fulfilling consumer needs in specific niche markets, but all businesses can be affected by large-scale economic trends. Accounting for trends in the overall economy can help business managers make better decisions. Economic factors that commonly affect businesses include consumer confidence, employment, interest rates and inflation.
Often the term business trend is synonymous with trends of financial markets such as the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ. These trends may also relate to the performance of market indicators such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the Standard and Poor's 500 indices.