Global economy

Sri Lankan drivers push auto rickshaws to buy petrol from a fuel station amid an economic crisis last year. The country’s 69.8% inflation in September 2022 declined to only 4% in August 2023 due to the government’s rapid and effective measures to stabilise the economy. Photo: Reuters
Panorama

What are the regional economies doing right?

Bangladesh’s post-pandemic growth has been stalled by both external and internal issues. It might prove imperative to take stock of the successful models of the regional economies during a global...

India, Indonesia, others to help G7 fight ‘economic coercion’
Bloomberg Special

India, Indonesia, others to help G7 fight ‘economic coercion’

Commercial vessels including vessels which are part of Black Sea grain deal wait to pass the Bosphorus strait off the shores of Yenikapi during a misty morning in Istanbul, Turkey, October 31, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas//File Photo
Europe

Ukraine suspends new Black Sea grain corridor due to threat from Russian warplanes

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World+Biz

Dollar rises as US business activity ticks up in October

Time for central bank digital currencies to prove their worth
Global Economy

Time for central bank digital currencies to prove their worth

FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks with David Westin, Anchor, Bloomberg Wall Street Week, during a meeting of the Economic Club of New York in New York City, U.S., October 19, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
Global Economy

Middle East throws central banks yet more unknowns

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Analysis

How big the price tag of another war could be

People walk past a bank's electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index at Hong Kong Stock Exchange Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. Asian shares rose Monday on relief the US presidential election results were finally decided, with Joe Biden the president-elect. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu
Global Economy

Asian stocks fall, gold at over 2-month high as Middle East tension weighs

These are the world's best and worst pensions in 2023
Global Economy

These are the world's best and worst pensions in 2023

A visitor wearing protective face mask, following an outbreak of the coronavirus, walks past in front of a stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan 2 March 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato/Files
Global Economy

Asian markets drop as Middle East conflict worries grow

Israeli soldiers inspect a destroyed home in the Kfar Aza settlement of southern Israel on Oct. 15.Photographer: Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images/Bloomberg
Middle East

Ripple effect seen on markets globally from Middle East conflict

FILE PHOTO: Model of natural gas pipeline and rising stock graph, July 18, 2022. REUTERS
Global Economy

Nervous markets eye Gaza as oil hovers above $90

A man carries a propane gas cylinder while walking through debris in the Jabalia camp in Gaza City on Oct. 11. Photographer: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images
Bloomberg Special

Wider war in Middle East could tip the world economy into recession