Iran war's looming economic threat
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The military conflict in Iran and the Middle East is curtailing the global flow of oil and natural gas. Along with potentially pressuring inflation higher, the energy shock also creates downside risks to growth,
July 29 (UPI) --The International Monetary Fund said Monday that global economic growth will be better than expected despite a slowdown in the U.S. economy over fluctuating tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. The U.S.-based IMF's world outlook ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The BlackRock Investment Institute (BII) said on Tuesday that growing uncertainty around traditionally stable, long-term economic trends is pushing it toward shorter-term strategies amid an increasingly unclear global economic outlook.
Geopolitical events and related uncertainties have contributed to choppy commodity and financial markets, but S&P Global’s Purchasing Managers Indexes (PMIs) point to relatively resilient economic conditions. January’s PMI data signaled a pick-up in ...
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IMF raises its global economic outlook
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Tuesday that decisions by most countries not to retaliate against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have partly helped bolster the global economy’s resilience. She made the remarks at the latest ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -International finance chiefs are returning home with a measure of relief over the surprising resilience of the global economy to the cascade of policy shocks through the first nine months of Donald Trump's second U.S. presidency but ...
The Federal Government has indicated it may recalibrate economic policies if the escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East begin
This analysis is by Bloomberg Intelligence Chief Economist Tom Orlik. It appeared first on the Bloomberg Terminal. The global economy started 2025 on a solid footing. Now the ground has shifted. We estimate the average US tariff rate has risen to 13.3% ...
Singapore upgraded its full-year 2026 growth forecast to a range of 2 per cent to 4 per cent after the economy grew at a better-than-expected pace in the final quarter of 2025. Read more at straitstimes.
The leadership of the Nigerian Senate is set to hold a high-level meeting with officials of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of consultations
The economic outlook among Americans fell in March after the U.S. attacked Iran, effectively erasing growth measured before the conflict as gas prices surged, according to a widely tracked survey published Friday by the University of Michigan.