Patricia Cohen

The effects of the war in Iran are squeezing consumers, businesses and governments around the world, raising the prices of many essential goods.

A new phase targeting oil and gas infrastructure in the Persian Gulf threatens to hurt businesses and customers around the world for months or even years.

Countries already walloped by a breakdown of the international trading order, war in Ukraine and chaotic U.S. policymaking are facing potentially lasting economic damage.

Even after the Supreme Court invalidated many of the president’s levies, foreign leaders and executives assume that U.S. tariffs are here to stay, in one form or another.

European leaders have been compelled to address the possibility of once-remote risks to the financial networks and technology that undergird their economies.

Experts are reaching to divine the president’s approach to global policy and economics, with one theory seeing antecedents in centuries-old dynastic rule.

From markets to spending to debt, usually reliable indicators that forecast where the economy is headed are proving deeply fallible.

The cost of borrowing is already choking crucial public spending in many developing economies. Now it’s raising broader alarms.