Global growth is projected at 3.3 percent both in 2025 and 2026, below the historical (2000–19) average of 3.7 percent. The forecast for 2025 is broadly unchanged from that in the October 2024 World ...

The global economy is growing steadily in the face of war, protectionist trade policies and high interest rates. It just isn't growing fast enough to bring relief to the world's poorest, the World ...

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China has released a slew of economic data this morning, showing its economy grew last year by a solid 5% percent, meeting the government's target. Other annual figures released show that total ...

Why the U.S. economy is still strong despite the Fed’s 2022-’23 rate hikes Effect of rate hikes ‘has been much weaker than the economics textbook would have predicted,’ according to ...

More than 3,000 global leaders from upwards of 130 countries will make their annual pilgrimage next week to the World Economic Forum at Davos-Klosters. The event is scheduled to take place from ...

In its twice-yearly report on the outlook for the global economy, the World Bank said output is likely to rise by 2.7% in 2025 and 2026, the same rate of growth recorded last year. However ...

Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, described the world’s No. 2 economy as being in a recession, if not a depression. Bessent, in further bearish ...

World leaders, including US President-elect Trump, German Chancellor Scholz, and Ukraine President Zelenskyy, will attend the World Economic Forum in Davos. The meeting aims to address global ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2025—Developing economies—which fuel 60 percent of global growth—are projected to finish the first quarter of the 21st century with the weakest long-term growth outlook since 2000 ...

Money latest: Guinness rival's sales surge 632% If unrevised, though, it would confirm that Germany is suffering its worst bout of economic stagnation since the Second World War. The timing is ...

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