If the crisis in Ukraine escalates further, the West seems more likely to impose limited financial sanctions against Russia than to target trade in goods, especially energy. Some Russian officials...

Final manufacturing PMIs for February, published today, reinforce the impression that global growth remains quite strong, notwithstanding the slowdown in China and slow growth in the euro-zone.

Extreme weather conditions have made the economic outlook in many countries less clear in recent months. However, experience suggests that the impact on GDP and inflation will probably turn out to be...

The G20’s bold plan to boost their collective GDP by more than 2% over the next five years contains many of the elements of the policies, collectively known as “Abenomics”, adopted by PM Abe’s...