China’s zero-COVID policies are beginning to severely hit the country’s global export engine. Prolonged lockdowns led to particularly sluggish export growth in April, new figures show. China’s export growth fell sharply to 3.9% in April,...
The dimmer outlook reflects faltering growth in the world’s largest economies, the United States and China. Signaling tough times ahead for households and policymakers, the IMF expects elevated price levels to persist. The global economy...
It’s too soon to understand the effectiveness of a fourth vaccine dose, according to the EU’s top drug regulator. But some countries have already authorized the shot. Fourth doses of the COVID-19 vaccine don’t appear...
The global economic recovery is being held back by the ongoing COVID pandemic. However, the mutating coronavirus is just one of the main risks which could dampen investor spirits in the coming year. The global...
If 2021 was the year the world ran out of everything, prospects are unlikely to change much for most of next year. So, sit back and relax on your couch and continue to perfect the...
The rise of the new COVID variant has rattled global investors who are struggling to judge its economic implications. JP Morgan analysts have sought to calm nerves, saying omicron may speed up the end of...
We’ve all heard it: You’re more likely to catch COVID indoors than outdoors. But once you’re inside, there are different factors that determine the risk level. And you shouldn’t throw caution to the wind outside...
Millions of people around the world have received the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19. Now the team behind BioNTech is receiving Germany’s biggest award for medicine. Three scientists from BioNTech, the German biotechnology company behind one...
The US and Canada now allow the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine to be administered to teenagers. Germany could follow suit this summer. But how sensible are the coronavirus vaccines for those under 18? According to the US...
International tax rules do not accurately reflect Big Tech’s global economic presence, a human rights group has concluded. A global minimum tax rate could help discourage tax dodging. G20 countries are losing out on as...
India is among the countries hardest hit by in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic — not only in terms of human life, but also economically. Rakesh Kumar Nayal runs a grocery store in...
The IMF’s latest quarterly outlook is impressively upbeat with expectations that the US and other advanced economies, always together with China, will come roaring back this year and into next. Successful near universal adult vaccination...
