For roughly 1,800 years, the world’s largest economy sat somewhere along the Yangtze River. A new chart from the Bank of America Institute — spanning 2,000 years of global GDP data — shows that ...

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The IMF warns that global public debt is approaching 100% of GDP. This level has not been seen since World War II.

The key macroeconomic theme of 2025 was the remarkable resilience of economic activity during a period of high uncertainty related to seismic shifts in US policy across a range of issues. The ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The global economy is proving more resilient than expected, with 2026 GDP growth expected ‌to improve slightly over forecasts from last June, the World Bank said on ...

The case for introducing fundamentally driven, or smart, global bond market indexes has been reinforced by both rapid growth in sovereign bond issuance and DM debt levels in recent years.

The International Monetary Fund has lowered its global growth forecast for 2026. This adjustment comes as the war in the Middle East has caused a significant oil price shock. The IMF also anticipates ...

Global debt has stabilized, though it remains at an elevated level, as a continued reduction in private-sector lending offset greater borrowing by governments. Total debt was little changed last year, ...

BEIJING, March 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- China targets economic growth of 4.5 percent to 5 percent this year and will strive for better in practice, according to a Government Work Report submitted ...

Real GDP rose at an annualized rate of 1.4% in the fourth quarter of 2025, below the 2.8% forecast. That's short of the growth in the previous two quarters but better than the first quarter's ...