1.   Analysts are expecting reports on industrial production, manufacturing and employment due next week to do little to improve the gloomy outlook.

2.   Bonds set new highs this week as Japanese stocks have sputtered on the gloomy outlook.

3.   A revenue uptick in late June apparently helped and may presage a less gloomy outlook for the rest of the year.

4.   Consumer spending has held up in recent months, despite the gloomy economic outlook.

5.   Despite his strong showing, Levine has a gloomy outlook for the market.

6.   Economists said the Bundesbank action may begin to change that gloomy outlook, at least later this year.

7.   He noted that the slowdown in the United States was coming on top of an already gloomy outlook in Europe, where business has been dragging since the spring.

8.   Her research has attracted a fervent army of critics, chiefly academics, feminists and the left, who have attacked her gloomy outlook and her methods of research.

9.   Investors are putting their money on stocks that typically perform well during the recovery phase of a market cycle despite the increasingly gloomy outlook for technology earnings.

10.   Japanese bonds rose as new investors were attracted to bonds after a report last week confirmed a gloomy outlook for the economy.