Copper and aluminum prices fell as generally positive market sentiment in 2025 to-date was significantly damped by disappointing Chinese manufacturing figures and looming tariff threats, Commerzbank ...

China and many other countries buy U.S. debt through the purchase of Treasury bonds. Here are the factors behind those purchases.

For most of U.S. history, tariffs were a solution to specific economic problems. Washington used them to raise money and to ...

The EU faces a ‘slow agony’ without significant investment and reform, a top European economist has forewarned. If the ...

The outlook for 2025 is uncertain. Market developments will largely depend on how the global geo-political situation will ...

When President Joe Biden announced on Jan. 15, 2025 that the United States had successfully brokered a fragile ceasefire and ...

Questions abound over how Trump will deal with China and Russia, as well as India and emerging powers in the global South. U.S. foreign policy is headed into a period of uncertainty, even if Trump’s ...

Tariffs are in the news at the moment. But what are they? Tariffs are typically charged as a percentage of the price a buyer ...

With a new administration due to take office in the US next month, other market watchers said that both China and the EU have a mutual interest in preventing the escalation of trade conflicts and ...

With both the United States and the European Union changing their leadership in 2024 the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program and The Friedrich Naumann Foundation are pleased to present findings from ...

The Trump administration is discussing a 10% punitive duty on Chinese imports. Trump said the EU also has troubling trade ...

China's exports of electric vehicles to the European Union rose again in December, prompting fears of an escalating trade conflict in 2025 China's electric vehicle shipments to the European Union ...