1.   A report showing falling business confidence lifted hopes that slowing economic growth will prompt the Bundesbank to cut rates soon.

2.   Already, Motorola and Ericsson have warned of slowing growth for mobile phone handsets, and their stocks have plummeted.

3.   Already, the slowing growth is hurting some parts of the laser eye surgery business.

4.   Analysts have forecast slowing sales growth this year, but early reports are below most predictions.

5.   An increase would have been the sixth of this year as the Fed sought to fight future inflation by slowing economic growth.

6.   Analyst Rick Whittington of Soundview Financial Group cut his earnings estimates for three chipmakers and two chipmaking-equipment companies because of slowing growth in the industry.

7.   Analysts attribute the slowing industrial growth rate to the reduction in the growth rate of stockpiling.

8.   Analysts said that while Microsoft and Intel warned of slowing growth in the coming quarters, both companies have strong prospects for the future.

9.   Analysts speculate that slowing growth in the Far East could easily cut U.S. growth by as much as half a percentage point and reduce demand for Canadian exports.

10.   And an insistence on government control of major industries serves as a sea anchor slowing economic growth.