But I certainly feel comforted by the homemade stock, slow cooked onions, Emmental and garlic croutons.
Even slow growth should cut the stock of jobless if productivity growth is sluggish, as seems likely.
Instead, we all would prefer a slow but steady climb in stock prices.
Sal Morreale, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, noted that one of the first areas to slow in a protracted downward stock market is IPOs.
With the US economy stalled in a slow-growth mode, stock prices cannot go up forever, noted Alexandra Scaggs last week in the Wall Street Journal.
Singh started his coverage in 2002 with a skeptical "hold" rating and upgraded Lucent before its shares began a slow rise from penny-stock status to once again being a worthwhile investment.
There's plenty of evidence that stock prices are slow to react to news, creating the potential for making money from momentum trading, says Tobias Moskowitz, a finance professor at the University of Chicago who studies market anomalies.
Others cautioned that Apple's stock growth has to slow at some point.
The big question is, if the economy continues to slow this year, and the stock market continues to decline, will the Fed push the magic button again?
Individual investors are concerned about the volatility in stock prices, the slow pace of economic growth, sovereign debt concerns (both in the U.S. and in Europe) and Washington politics.
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There, as well as in Milwaukee, Chicago, Miami and much of the rest of Florida and California, construction is slow relative to the overall housing stock and relative to normal levels.
That does not mean that the economy will actually slow enough to drag year-end stock prices down, however.
Led by Chief Executive LesMoonvesLes Moonves, CBS has seen its stock price edge upward after a slow start.
Led by Chief Executive Les Moonves , CBS has seen its stock price edge upward after a slow start.
It is possible that the stock market has already discounted a slow down in growth if not the dreaded double-dip in the year ahead.
Another stock that will also benefit from slow growth is InnerWorkings.
Urban growth has been slow going, along with the company's stock.
So, unless the economy really nose-dives, I suspect the Fed will allow the market system to function normally this time around, allowing economic growth to slow if that is its inclination, and the stock market to adjust to that, without government interference.
However the slow recovery in North America put a damper on the stock Monday, after the company released a weaker than expected revenue outlook for its first quarter.
Bristol-Myers is what I call a slow-growth-at-a-reasonable-price stock!
Until this week, signs of slow but steady economic growth and record profits for big companies had propelled stock-market indexes to all-time highs.
Since the beginning of the year, investors have sliced the company's stock price nearly in half over fears that spending on online ads will slow or fall as the credit crunch freezes wallets.
Just take a look at the stock of large US export companies after China released data that showed a slow down in their economies last week: Toyota Motor Company (NYSE:TM) down 1.92%, Honda (NYSE:HMC) down 2.12%, GM (NYSE:GM) down 2.09%, Ford (NYSE:F) down 1.24%, Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) down 0.52%, Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE) down 7.30%, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) down .20%, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) down 1.37%, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) down 2.82%, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) down 1.21 %, and 3M (NYSE:MMM) down 1.35 percent.
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Though the stock market showed its approval yesterday, the pace of the economic recovery remains slow.
As dismal employment data threw the U.S. stock market for a loop on Friday, Europe worried about rising inflation and slow economic growth.
However, news of another earthquake, slow going at the Daiichi site, and fears of a prolonged fight in Libya are keeping stock futures in check in the early going.
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Is a slow growth at best U.S. economy worth a 15 times price earnings ratio for this stock market?
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Someone who wants to get out of the "slow growth" U.S. economy and into "fast growing" emerging markets is selling Apple stock to buy Samsung.
"The economy could slow down, and there is still uncertainty about interest rates, " says Gerard Cassidy, a bank stock analyst at RBC Capital Markets in Portland, Maine, who is recommending an underweighting in bank stocks for the foreseeable future.
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