Chance of recession growing

 Newsweek - Analysts have raised their expectations of a recession in America's near future.

A prediction model from the global financial services firm JPMorgan Chase, analyzed by Bloomberg, suggests that the probability of an economic downturn has grown to 31 percent from 17 percent at the end of November.

Other measures of economic risk have similarly risen in recent days, suggesting that markets are anticipating tough times ahead for the U.S. economy.