1.   Elaine Garzarelli, the fund manager and market forecaster, said the U.S. economy will slow next year and that the U.S. stock market will fall next year.

2.   Not only that, Fed insiders believe the economy will slow anyway, which also will make a rate hike unnecessary.

3.   The further along we get in the economic cycle, the more worries you have the economy will sink.

4.   Even Goh has conceded that the normally buoyant Singapore economy will likely contract next year.

5.   The telecommunications company said the slowing economy will results in lower-than-expected first-quarter results.