KUWAIT: This week, global markets navigated heightened volatility, persistent trade tensions, and fiscal concerns amidst ongoing uncertainty, central bank policy decisions, and a flurry of economic ...

US President Donald Trump’s widest-ranging tariffs to date have come into effect – a move that may trigger retaliation and escalate trade ... the global economy. The initial 10 percent ...

Persistent US dollar overvaluation fuels much of America’s global trade deficit by raising the price of our goods abroad. This is a big reason we’ve run trade deficits in goods year after year ...

The US dollar is an early casualty of President Trump’s us-against-the-world trade ... currency in global payments. In March, financial institutions used dollars for almost 49 percent of cross ...

According to Bloomberg, three days of market losses – Thursday, Friday, and Monday – have wiped out about $10 trillion in global equity value. That’s roughly 10 percent of global gross ...

Global growth will downshift to an annual rate of 2.8 percent, half a percentage point ... claims of progress in efforts to reach trade deals with scores of nations. Administration officials ...

Graphic shows just under 60% of global foreign reserves are held in USD, 20% in euro and smaller amounts in GBP, JPY and CNY The percentage of dollar-amount holdings reported in dollars edged up ...

In the adjusted forecast, North America now subtracts 1.7 percentage points from global merchandise trade growth in 2025, turning the overall figure negative. Meanwhile, Asia and Europe continue ...

President Donald Trump’s global trade ... in the global trade war.” The credit agency said it had cut its expectation for global economic growth in 2025 by 0.4 percentage points, and for ...

The World Trade Organization warned that tariffs would push down both U.S. exports and imports and that trade wars could put poorer countries at risk. By Ana Swanson Reporting from Washington The ...