The shipping blockage is backing up through the Middle East’s oil industry, endangering a big chunk of the world’s crude ...

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The global economy has withstood plenty of turmoil in the past few years, staving off a widely predicted recession in 2022, but the most recent conflict to break out in the Middle East could be one ...

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Yet although a market crash would surprise almost nobody, few have thought about its consequences. That is partly because the chances of a big fall in stockmarkets bringing about a broad financial ...

India has been holding tight to its position as the fastest-growing large economy since 2021. With annual growth of more than 6 or 7 percent, it doubles in size every decade, while Germany, Japan and ...

A reordering of the rules of trade, set on top of transformational change in technology, demographics and climate, is remaking jobs, politics and lives. By Patricia Cohen Patricia Cohen, who is based ...