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All the Reasons to Fret About the Global Economy, in Charts

  • Trade tensions, policy uncertainty taking a toll on confidence
  • WTO on Tuesday cut its forecast for trade growth in 2019
Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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The global economy is wobbling in 2019, giving rise to recession fears and forcing the world’s central banks to consider renewed policy easing.