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International Organizations · Oct 8, 2026 · 3 min read
The World Trade Organization raised its forecast for growth in world merchandise trade volume this year to 3.9 percent from 1.9 percent in March, as spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure lifted trade in chips and…
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International Organizations · Sep 26, 2026 · 3 min read
The World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body agreed on 25 September to establish a panel to review the European Union's Carbon Border…
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Macro · Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Global services exports totalled 9.6 trillion dollars in 2025 and made up almost 28 percent of world trade on a balance of…
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Macro · Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
A strengthened multilateral trading system would raise global GDP by 2.9 percent and global exports by 17.9 percent by 2050 against the…
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Markets · Sep 10, 2026 · 4 min read
The World Trade Organization's Goods Trade Barometer rose to 102.0 from 101.7 in June, signalling that global merchandise trade remained above its…
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Macro · Jul 29, 2026 · 9 min read
The Bundesbank puts the average US import tariff at almost 12 percent against 2.3 percent in 2024, and models an escalation that…
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International Organizations · Jul 10, 2026 · 3 min read
The heads of the International Energy Agency, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization said the…
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International Organizations · Jun 13, 2026 · 14 min read
How the Biggest Tournament in Football History Is Changing the Business Model of Mega Sporting Events The FIFA World Cup has always…
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The World Trade Organization raised its forecast for growth in world merchandise trade volume this year to 3.9 percent from 1.9 percent in March, as spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure lifted trade in chips and servers by more than the Middle East conflict weighed on shipments of fuels and fertilisers. It raised its 2027 forecast…
The World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body agreed on 25 September to establish a panel to review the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and an alleged export subsidy under the EU Emissions Trading System. The panel was set up on Russia’s second request. A total of 18 members, including China, India, the United…
Global services exports totalled 9.6 trillion dollars in 2025 and made up almost 28 percent of world trade on a balance of payments basis, a record share, WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said on 17 September at the launch of a report on services export promotion written with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America…
A strengthened multilateral trading system would raise global GDP by 2.9 percent and global exports by 17.9 percent by 2050 against the baseline, the World Trade Organization said on 15 September in its World Trade Report 2026. A world where multilateral rules are replaced by a network of free trade agreements would cut GDP by…
The World Trade Organization’s Goods Trade Barometer rose to 102.0 from 101.7 in June, signalling that global merchandise trade remained above its recent trend and continued to gain momentum in mid-2026. Five of the barometer’s six component indices were above their common baseline of 100. Electronic components produced the strongest reading at 104.9, supported by…
The Bundesbank puts the average US import tariff at almost 12 percent against 2.3 percent in 2024, and models an escalation that doubles the damage.
The heads of the International Energy Agency, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization said the global economy “has been broadly resilient” to the shock from the war in the Middle East, but warned that the impacts remain highly uneven across energy supplies, food security, commodities and economic activity,…
How the Biggest Tournament in Football History Is Changing the Business Model of Mega Sporting Events The FIFA World Cup has always been more than a football tournament. It is a global media asset, a tourism catalyst, a political stage, and one of the most powerful commercial properties in sport. But the 2026 edition, hosted…