With Wall Street still digesting the latest round of sub-par economic data even as it braces for potentially more, economists and analysts said investors can look forward to one 'certainty' in the weeks ahead -- market volatility, as the financial community gauges the U.S economy's probable economic path for 2008.

Market bears will cite the housing sector's recession, related mortgage and asset-backed defaults, slumping corporate earnings and consumer spending, high energy prices, and uncertain job growth as reasons the Dow and the broader markets are likely to continue to fall in the weeks ahead.

Market bulls will cite solid corporate earnings from companies in international markets, relatively low inflation, a declining trade deficit, the fair or undervalued price of some U.S. equities, and the U.S economy's ability to adapt as reasons the markets may reverse their slide in early 2008 and head higher.

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