41.   Economists closely watch the orders numbers for signs of how the manufacturing economy will perform in coming months.

42.   Greenspan cited recent gains in industrial production, home sales, retail spending and employment as favorable signs that the economy would perform better in the months ahead.

43.   If confirmed, his survival probably will depend on how well the economy performs.

44.   Illegal money can prevent an economy performing effectively, supporting inefficient businesses as cover for money laundering and bribes leading to unsuitable decisions.

45.   In fact, instead of warning of crisis, the two institutions kept assuring Asian countries that their economies were performing well and were going in the right direction.

46.   Leading economic indicators, based on officially released data, aim to forecast how an economy will perform.

47.   Market analysts said while growth assumptions may have been optimistic, the economy is still performing well.

48.   McTeer, a nonvoting member of the policy-making Federal Open Market Committee, said the economy has performed fairly well despite a slowdown in manufacturing.

49.   On the economic side, Japan will not be quite as lonely, since the United States is the only summit participant whose economy is performing well.

50.   Ruiz said, however, that the market should rally if the economy performed better than expected in the third quarter.