1.   For now, the Federal Reserve is expected to focus on the slowing economy, continuing to cut interest rates until growth revives.

2.   Government officials maintained that growth will revive in the course of the year, though.

3.   Many economists say that German growth will revive later this year, but there is widespread doubt about the pace.

4.   That may limit gains as investors look to avoid getting stung if strong growth revives concern about the Fed.

5.   The tensions emerged amid a widening U.S.-Japan trade gap and expectations that Japan will continue to rely largely on export growth to revive its listless economy.

6.   But with little sign that economic growth is reviving, investors have become less enamored with interest rates.

7.   Federal Reserve policy-makers, fearful that too-rapid economic growth could revive, have raised interest rates five times since June.

8.   Federal Reserve policy-makers, fearful that too-rapid economic growth could revive inflation, have raised interest rates five times since June.

9.   The Paris-based research organization said that growth is reviving as inventories fall to normal levels and investment in information and communication technologies rebounds.