21.   Because the economy is showing signs of strength, the Fed has less reason to lower borrowing costs to goose economic growth, traders said.

22.   Bond investors say the Fed may make its next move later this year, when the economy either shows signs of speeding up or stalling.

23.   Bond investors are bracing for higher yields in coming weeks, unless the economy shows signs of slowing down.

24.   Bonds declined amid concern that the economy will show no sign of slowing, prompting the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates later this year.

25.   After a brief downturn last year, the economy has been showing unmistakable signs of improvement.

26.   After barely growing at all in the second quarter, the economy has shown some signs of life lately.

27.   Along with housing, the manufacturing economy is showing strength.

28.   Also supporting the dollar is the expectation that the U.S. economy will show continued growth with little inflation.

29.   But fiscal fine-tuning of this sort is almost always a bad idea, especially when a faltering economy shows signs of life.

30.   But McCarthy also noted that the economy was showing that it could grow at a healthy clip without raising inflationary pressures.