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"Risks to the commodity price projections are tilted to the downside," the World Bank said. "A sharper-than-expected slowdown in global growth--driven by worsening trade relations or a prolonged ...

The economy surged as U.S. pharmaceutical giants based in the country boosted production to build stockpiles back home ahead ...

Closer cooperation between countries that favor trade openness is needed to avoid worse outcomes for the global economy ...

Typically, economists expect the currencies of targeted countries to weaken when tariffs are imposed, providing a support to exporters. But the euro has instead strengthened against the dollar since ...

The eurozone's inflation rate fell to 2.2% in March from 2.3% in February, just above the ECB's 2% target. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expect figures to be released Friday that show ...

The head of the Bank of France also said that while slower economic growth in the U.S. would be a blow, it presented Europe ...

Paul Hannon is economics editor for Dow Jones Newswires in London.

Higher tariffs most directly affect trade in goods and the factories that make them. The PMI for the eurozone's manufacturing sector, more immediately exposed to Trump's tariffs on goods, rose to its ...