Ukraine conflict has knocked 2.8% off world trade over last two months. And the Kiel Trade Indicator says China trade faces 'stagnation', due to the Covid lockdown in Shanghai

Supplies of milk worldwide have tightened after a combination of dry weather in New Zealand, rains in Australia and war in Ukraine pushed up feed costs

The state-run utility, which produces over a quarter of India's power output, will import 16 million tonnes to blend with domestic coal during the year ending March 2023

Some 41 Sri Lankan MPs walked out of the ruling coalition on Tuesday, leaving the Rajapaksa government in a minority in parliament as it struggles with the worst economic crisis in decades

South Korea's consumer prices rose at their fastest pace in more than a decade in March as the Ukraine war fuelled surging energy and commodity costs

Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar—key members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries—have remained hesitant to increase oil and gas exports

Chinese exports to Russia have been buffeted as the rouble swings in value, clear evidence of the effect Western sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine are having in China

The Caixin/Markit Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 48.1 in March, indicating the steepest rate of contraction since February 2020

Starting in May, the US will release 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil for six months from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

The food security initiative had the backing of the G7 and will now be discussed with G20 nations, including China and India

Activity in Chinese manufacturing and services simultaneously contracted in March for the first time since the height of the country's Covid-19 outbreak in 2020

Move would mark the third time the US has tapped strategic reserves in six months, and would be the largest release in the near 50-year history of the reserve system