Global electricity demand growth is set to outstrip GDP growth for the first time, signaling a major boon for metals key to ...

Plus, South Korea plots new chip plants, and AI brings bumper profits for memory producers ...

Deficits and surpluses will be on the agenda at next week’s G-7 meeting in the French Alps.

While economic activity has remained resilient in recent months, policymakers must act decisively, the BIS said, to preserve ...

A new study published in Nature shows that as the global economy more than doubled between 2000 and 2022, it still left billions of people without life's essentials, while rapidly pushing Earth's life ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

Events in the Middle East have materially changed the near-term economic and financial outlook. Our updated forecasts are based on short-lived disruptions to energy production and supply of just a few ...

Prolonged disruption of energy supplies from the Middle East that lasts into next year would deal a severe blow to the global economy.

After showing notable resilience in 2025, the global economy faced a major setback in the first half of 2026. As UN DESA released the mid-year update of the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2026 ...

As Middle East tensions rise, the Strait of Hormuz has again become a focal point for policymakers and markets. Roughly one-fifth of globally traded oil passes through that narrow waterway. Any ...

On this episode of The Long View, Neil Shearing, Group Chief Economist at Capital Economics and author, breaks down why he believes that the world is not deglobalizing, what he sees for the US and ...