A quarter of young Canadians are open to exploring union with the US

Fund expects public debt to be approaching 100% of world GDP by the end of the decade

The Panama Canal isn’t as reliable as it once was and Mexico is racing to build a new corridor connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans that would help fill the gap. WSJ explores whether it will lead to faster or cheaper shipping.

For Moscow and Beijing, the Ukraine crisis is part of a struggle to reduce American power and make the world safe for autocrats

BANK OF ENGLAND, Staff Working Paper No. 845

Republican is inaugurating a new era in US politics and perhaps for the world as a whole

The launch feeds into an effort to establish the state as a corporate mecca with a new bourse trading equities in Dallas

IIF warns countries will have to allocate more to interest expenses as debt as a share of GDP starts to rise again

Investors big and small are wagering hundreds of billions of dollars on market moves

The postwar Swiss economy was largely driven by high-value exports like precision tools and watches. This worked well in the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates that defined much of the postwar era. But when U.S. President Richard Nixon suspended the conversion of dollars into gold in 1971, currencies gradually began to “float” against one another. The dollar went into a steep decline.