China's trade balance is dropping rapidly, signifying a slowdown in global consumer demand.

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Chinese industrial profit growth has gone negative, signaling weaker demand and higher labor costs.

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Heavy duty truck orders, a leading indicator of recession, are plummeting in North America.

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Corn prices have surged and remain high, which will filter through to food inflation.

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The eurozone's manufacturing climate continues to deteriorate as the euro area slips into recession.

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German business confidence is tanking as the outlook for growth in Germany weakens.

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India industrial production growth has gone negative, signaling weakness in a key emerging market.

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Japanese export growth has turned negative as global demand – and especially Europe – falters.

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The Philly Fed manufacturing index has gone negative, indicating a deteriorating business outlook in the northeast U.S.

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The Shanghai Composite Index is nearing multi-year lows as Chinese companies feel the slowdown.

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Japanese stocks have been unable to break out of the summer rut, and continue to trend lower.

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South Korean export growth has gone negative, signaling weakening global demand.

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Taiwanese export growth has gone negative, indicating weak demand from China, Taiwan's biggest export market.

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U.S. manufacturing, which has remained in positive territory since the recession, is back near 34-month lows.

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Retail sales have faltered since the spring of 2012.

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GDP growth of the BRIC nations, the four countries expected to lead global growth over this century, has been hit hard by the European crisis and regional difficulties.

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Iron ore prices have plummeted since May, placing increasing pressure on miners in countries like Australia.

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It's not just you, volume across U.S. exchanges has been extremely light since the start of the year — as traders wait to move funds (and many investors shift to fixed income investments).

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Core capital goods orders and shipments track very closely - so a recent plunge in orders means shipments will likely be pulled down. The issue: shipments ultimately calculate into GDP.

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Profit warnings out of Hong Kong based companies have surged since January, as weakness in China weighs on results.

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The Misery Index, the crude calculation that adds a country's inflation rate to its unemployment rate, shows Spain in a much more troubled place than Greece. That poses a big risk — because the country's economy is roughly four times as large as Greece's.

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Exports from the U.S. to other countries have been hammered as the Euro crisis rages on — which could ultimately depress GDP unless domestic demand makes up for the difference.

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The number of Spanish bankruptcies has taken off since 2007, hitting an all time high in the last quarter.

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At the same time, international institutions are pulling their funds out of Spanish banks as fear builds.

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Across the Mediterranean Sea, traffic in the Suez Canal has started to decline.

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The U.S. airline industry, which has gained strength over the past year, has lost market share to European and Asian carriers as it trims international routes.

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Waste transport, which has an 82 percent correlation with economic growth in the U.S., has flatlined.

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The Baltic Dry Index is headed lower – signaling much less demand for freight shipping than supply as the global economy weakens.

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Forecasts for Italian GDP continue to get cut — this is the rolling estimate starting in 2011, when some economists still expected the country to eke out some growth.

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