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Yet companies with growing free cash flows will be better positioned to weather a potential downturn than those without.

Since economic downturns tend to crop up for a variety of reasons, it’s challenging at best to anticipate the most important data point among thousands.

The move is the latest in a series of creative shifts across the luxury space as brands try to regain consumers’ appeal with fresh designs amid a global downturn in demand for high-end goods.

The downturn has spooked would-be homebuyers, dampened investment and left many major projects unfinished after several of the sectors' top firms defaulted.

"Some of these guys are approached by traffickers," she explains, adding that a downturn in the fishing industry could leave fishermen more vulnerable to those approaches.