The World Bank forecasts a significant decline in global commodity prices, predicting a 12% drop in 2025 and another 5% in 2026, bringing them back to pre-pandemic levels.

The world’s most desperate countries are falling further and further behind, their plight worsened by conflicts that are growing deadlier and more frequent ...

The World Bank on Tuesday slashed its global growth forecast for 2025 by four-tenths of a percentage point to 2.3%, saying that higher tariffs and heightened uncertainty posed a "significant ...

Linwood police work at the scene where the Ocean City Home Bank on Route 9 was robbed at 9:18 a.m. Wednesday. The Cape Bank branch at Central Avenue and Shore Road was robbed Friday morning.

The World Bank is ending its long-standing ban on providing funding for nuclear energy projects - and will be open to supporting efforts to extend the life of existing reactors and accelerate the ...

The World Bank's steering committee on Friday endorsed the lender's plans to explore options to expand energy access, including potential financing for nuclear energy, in a move in line with ...

The World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects report sounds a dire warning about tariffs.

The World Bank on Tuesday reduced its outlook for both global and U.S. economic growth this year, citing disruptions to global trade stemming from President Trump’s trade war. Global growth in ...

Global economic growth is on track for its weakest decade since the 1960s, according to a new analysis by the World Bank, which cites President Donald Trump’s trade war as a major factor ...

The bank also lopped 0.4 percentage points off its forecast for global growth this year. It now expects the world economy to expand just 2.3% in 2025, down from 2.8% in 2024.

The global economy will see the slowest decade for global growth since the 1960s as the effect of Donald Trump's tariffs are felt, the World Bank has predicted.