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Today — 19 December 2025Main stream

‘A Singularly Turbulent Time’: Deeper Uncertainty in Store for Global Economy

19 December 2025 at 13:00
A reordering of the rules of trade, set on top of transformational change in technology, demographics and climate, is remaking jobs, politics and lives.

© Linh Pham for The New York Times

A furniture factory in Vietnam. Chinese exports are surging not just into Europe but even more sharply into Southeast Asia.

Bank of Japan Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level in 30 Years

19 December 2025 at 11:28
The Bank of Japan moved to slow inflation as the prime minister is borrowing more to fund an ambitious effort to build up industry and support households.

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The rate increase is widely viewed as an attempt to ultimately help cool inflation and give wages a chance to keep up.
Yesterday — 18 December 2025Main stream

Tankers Under Sanction Are Only a Subset of Fleet Moving Venezuelan Oil

18 December 2025 at 01:48
The scope of President Trump’s blockade against ships carrying oil from Venezuela was not clear on Wednesday.

© Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times

An oil tanker docked at Cardón Refinery in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, in 2021. More than 400 tankers have moved Venezuelan oil or related products since 2019, and these vessels are part of a bigger fleet of ships that trade oil illicitly.
Before yesterdayMain stream

On British Roads, Chinese Cars Are Racing Ahead

17 December 2025 at 16:30
BYD, Chery and other Chinese automakers are winning over drivers in Britain, where tariffs are low and buyers are open to new brands.

© Owen Richards for The New York Times

Macron Urges Xi to Help End War in Ukraine

4 December 2025 at 18:03
As President Emmanuel Macron of France visited China, its leader, Xi Jinping, said his country would play a constructive role in ending the fighting.
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