Global economic outlook 2024
By unlocking big, bold investments, we can drive sustainable development and climate action and put the global economy on a stronger growth path for all. We must build on the…
FX & Gold – weekly outlook – March 25 – 29: Cyprus dominates global financial market
The Fed''s FOMC meeting that was supposed to be the major event of last week was sidelined as Cyprus funding crisis dominated the global financial market. Imagine that how brittle…
Pakistan: significant global achievements
Pakistan’s achievements in the global arena demonstrate a country that has consistently sought to defend its sovereignty and assert its strategic position despite immense challenges. The defining moment of national…
The new age of global disruption
The WEF (World Economic Forum) warns of weak growth and fragmentation. In short, the age of hyper-globalization appears to be ending. There are enough grounds to state that the global…
Global finance: fault line in architecture
Markets are still pricing calm, but could they be ignoring a storm. The attempt to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook has become more than just another Trumpian tantrum. It signals…
A vanishing global order
The international order, as we knew it, may be in its death throes, but the disorder we see around is not the birth pangs of a new international order. There…
Trump gets his way on tariffs, but global trade system intact for now
President Donald Trump has succeeded in strong-arming nations to accept higher tariffs on US exports, yet for now experts see little threat to the postwar trend of lower duties in…
Global economy’s ‘sugar rush’ defies trade drama – for now
For all the drama surrounding US President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs, the world economy is holding up better than many had expected. The latest data from the United States, China…
Global economy takes Trump guessing-game in stride
Global economic policymakers had been braced for an economic firestorm from the new US administration but instead got a surprisingly restrained start from Donald Trump, who remains big on rhetoric…
A truly global economic policy needed
In an October 24 post by The Guardian, it highlighted the comments made by Kristalina Georgieva, the head of International Monetary Fund (IMF), which are highly indicative of a global…
