International trade is once again in the spotlight. A new Monthly Briefing from UN DESA examines the evolving dynamics, offering insights into both the risks and potential opportunities ahead.

Discussions at this week’s OECD Export Credits Forum in Paris face a new geopolitical reality after South Korea blocked a landmark climate agreement that would have ended USD 41 billion in annual ...

(Bloomberg) — The world’s oil traders descended on London this week ... because of the political attitude towards it,” Ben Luckock, global head of oil at Trafigura Group, said in a Bloomberg TV ...

Human costs aside, any military conflict between the world's two largest economic powers would lead to "a severing of global supply chains, a blow to confidence and crashing asset prices", said ...

Japan and India rank next to China in Asia's GDP rankings. 4. What are the top 10 richest countries in the world? The top 10 richest countries in the world by GDP per capita are as follows: ...

Luxembourg, with its high GDP per capita and strong financial sector, is the richest country in the world. The nation is ... Guyana's economic rise began after the discovery of crude oil in ...

Trafigura is one of the world’s biggest independent oil trading merchants, moving an average of 6 million barrels of oil and products a day last year, enough to cover demand from South Korea and ...

Trafigura Group’s head of oil trading Ben Luckock said that US foreign policy towards Iran is the biggest upside risk to crude prices in an otherwise well supplied market. “The two big ...

Surveys of professional economic forecasters and financial market data can reveal public perceptions about the future conduct of monetary policy. Current estimates suggest that both professional ...

While the United States and most of the European Union have shrugged off the pandemic recession and restarted their economic engines, Germany remains idled. Its economy shrank slightly in 2024 ...