1.   Confidence signals remained high through that July, the month the last recession began.

2.   The signals remained mixed throughout the evening.

3.   U.S. business productivity slowed in the second quarter while inflation signals remained benign, Labor Department figures showed today.

4.   But all these signals remained unheeded.

5.   Recent political signals from Chavalit remain characteristically ambiguous and he seems to mix still-simmering ambition with despair.

6.   The United States has been in a recession since last March and economic signals remain mixed.

7.   Five months after the attacks pounded an already-feeble world economy, the signals remained mixed, Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin said.