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The second part of our free Understanding the SpaceX-Era Economy report series examines how Starlink’s explosive growth is ...

The global real estate market has always been a critical indicator of economic health, with property prices often reflecting broader ...

Long-term crude oil prices are held down by growing wage and wealth disparities, which reduce the purchasing power of the middle class and thus limit demand for oil-intensive goods and services.

In a stride toward refining our understanding of the global economy, the United Nations Statistical Commission unanimously approved the sixth iteration of the System of National Accounts (SNA) this ...

LONDON/TOKYO, April 3 (Reuters) - The latest round of U.S. trade tariffs unveiled on Wednesday will sap yet more vigour from a world economy barely recovered from the post-pandemic inflation surge, ...

Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards. By Alan Rappeport Reporting from Washington The ...

The cornerstones of our digital world—from smartphone apps to new digital assets and artificial intelligence tools—didn’t exist back in 2008, the last time the world’s statistical community overhauled ...

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 ...

California has slipped a notch in the bragging-rights totem pole to the world’s fifth-largest economy in the latest update on global business output. Using gross domestic product as the yardstick, my ...

From left: A container ship docks in Shenzhen, China, on April 11, 2025 (Cheng Xin/Getty Images); relatives of victims of the 2002 Bali bombings pray in front a memorial on on Oct. 12, 2024, the 22nd ...