After the longest bull market since World War II, the stock market more recently has been giving up ground, suggesting this long run may finally be coming to an end.

With equity markets flashing warning signals, analysts are on high alert for weakening signs in such sectors as the housing and automobile industries, the two industries that receive the highest share of consumer spending. Indeed, there has been some softening in housing, and the recent announcement by General Motors that it would be shuttering five assembly plants in North America has raised concerns in some quarters.

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