A declining currency and ballooning budget deficit has led to talk of a hard landing in 2025. After two years of strong growth, which confounded analysts’ predictions, Russia’s pace of ...

As developing nations hike interest rates, African economies suffer as they face a perfect storm of reduced hard-currency investment, falling exports and rising domestic prices.

Ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza are at the top of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda, and many expect the new administration to change American policy in both. It may well try to. But ...

Yemen currency clash deepens crisis in war-torn country. Yemen’s government and the Houthi rebels continue to battle a currency war that has opened up a gulf in riyal values.

China’s management of its currency, the yuan, is under fresh scrutiny after a record eight-week drop in the exchange rate made it a focus in the U.S.-China trade war. The yuan has tumbled more ...

The new sanction measures could gum up Russia’s already constrained trade routes with other countries, Russian officials and analysts say. It is a pivotal time for the nearly three-year-old war.

Options traders have cut their expectations of currency volatility in emerging markets to levels seen before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.. The JPMorgan Emerging Market Volatility Index ...

At the top of the monetary food chain, gold operates as an intergovernmental currency – and most importantly, as the currency of war. Paper promises don’t hold up in existential conflict.

Having only a fledgling defense industry, China required hard currency in order to purchase weapons not only for the continuing civil war against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but also for ...

A battle of wills between Iran's government and foreign exchange traders may end with authorities taking over all legal trade in the rial, leaving many Iranians to seek hard currency illegally in ...

Economists see the decision to let the currency move as a weapon in the economic battle between the US and China. It came after Donald Trump vowed to impose 10% tariffs on $300bn (£246.7bn) of ...