In the face of chaos, the global economy powers on. Since 2011 growth has continued at around 3% a year. During the worst of ...

The global economy is, to put it mildly, in a state of flux. Before the most recent U.S. elections, it was already being ...

US President Donald Trump ramped back up his tariff plans with an eye on copper and Canada, deflating hopes that the administration was dialing back its initial Liberation Day levies first announced ...

Trade tensions and fractious geopolitics risk exposing deep fault lines in the global financial system, the central bank umbrella body, Bank for International Settlements, said in its latest ...

California remained the world’s fourth-largest economy by a narrow margin as 2025 started.

The annual report of the Bank for International Settlements has pointed to the decades-long slowdown in the global economy, exacerbated by Trump’s economic war, and the “vulnerabilities” in the ...

The bank also lopped 0.4 percentage points off its forecast for global growth this year. It now expects the world economy to expand just 2.3% in 2025, down from 2.8% in 2024.