1.   Although higher stock prices are anticipated, investors will have to come to grips with slower earnings growth in future quarters, analysts said.

2.   Banks, consumer product companies and producers of basic materials, such as International Paper, are facing slower earnings growth.

3.   All that could lead to slower economic growth that will show up as slower earnings growth for some companies, and shrinking profits for others.

4.   But the suggestion of slower earnings growth pushed the most skittish investors out early.

5.   But technology stocks were weak Tuesday, partly because of recent warnings of slower earnings growth.

6.   Harris Bank is cutting its holdings of computer-related stocks because of the expectations for slower earnings, he said.

7.   In the broader market today, U.S. stocks fell from records as investors fretted that disappointing profit at Hewlett-Packard Co. might signal slower earnings growth at other big companies.

8.   Investors will have to get used to slower earnings as a result of weaker economic growth in the U.S. and Europe, Zacks said.

9.   It was also the first piece of positive economic news to surface after the concerns of the property glut and slower earnings growth first emerged.

10.   It was the first piece of positive economic news to surface since concern over a property glut and slower earnings growth first emerged.