The escalating Middle East conflict is disrupting trade, energy supplies and food production, raising fresh risks for inflation and global growth.

The Iran war is driving up energy and fertiliser prices, threatening food shortages in poor countries, destabilising fragile states and complicating inflation control at central banks worldwide. View ...

The latest military confrontation in the Middle East has once again demonstrated how fragile the global energy market can be. Within a matter of hours, geopolitical tensions pushed oil prices to the ...

How come it feels like it's all bad news in the global economy these days? According to one economist, something he calls the "doom loop." ...

Global oil prices have surged by more than 25 per cent over the week, exponentially driving up fuel prices for consumers worldwide ...

The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that connects the Gulf to the Arabian Sea. On a typical day, ships carrying oil equal to about one-fifth of global demand pass through ...

The global economy is set to grow more rapidly than previously expected in the face of President Trump's tariff hikes, thanks in part to a U.S. boom in AI investment, but is nonetheless on course for ...

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 ...

How come it feels like it's all bad news in the global economy these days? According to one economist, something he calls the "doom loop." Between trade wars, rising inflation and industries going ...