Today’s CPB Trade Monitor shows that global trade continues to recover, although the gain in October was inevitably less spectacular than the surge in September. We expect that world trade will...

World trade volumes are now rising almost as sharply as they fell at the end of last year. The structure of trade also appears to have suffered little lasting damage from the financial crisis...

Soaring inventories and falling imports are strong signs that the supply of many industrial metals in China far exceeds final demand. Needless to say, this reinforces our scepticism about the current...