21.   The Treasury bond market may get a boost early next year if the economy slips into a recession for the first time in six years, Gross said.

22.   There are reports the economy is slipping.

23.   They are plagued by chronic excess capacity and gigantic losses when the economy slips.

24.   To be sure, few analysts predict the economy will soon slip from growth into contraction.

25.   Yet the machine order did little to indicate the economy was slipping, Fukawa said.

26.   Perhaps it is timely for traders to remember that they too would beaffected as consumers if the economy slips into a recession.

27.   Also dampening sentiment was a string of major companies revising their earnings forecasts downward amid fresh signs the economy was slipping into recession, traders said.

28.   Also hurting share prices was a string of major companies revising their earnings forecasts downward amid fresh signs the economy was slipping into recession, traders said.

29.   Authorities, however, now worry that the economy will slip back into recession when those pump-priming measures run out.

30.   But economists warn that economic weakness is so widespread that the global economy could still slip into a recession.