DAVOS, Switzerland -- The world will probably avoid recession despite economic gloom in the U.S. and Japan, analysts at the World Economic Forum business summit said today. They predicted more gains ...

TOKYO — Japan’s economy is now the world’s fourth-largest after it contracted in the last quarter of 2023 and fell behind Germany. The government reported the economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.4% ...

Former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned President Donald Trump’s policies are “pushing the world towards a recession” – but there is still time to take steps to avoid it. He set out the ...

The saying goes that when America sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold — pithy shorthand to describe how changes in the world’s biggest economy ripple out to impact everyone else. But that ...