Global Trade Monitor World trade still sluggish at start of Q4 The volume of world trade fell in October, continuing a run of weak data which has lasted all year. Exports from emerging economies have been particularly sluggish. 24th December 2015 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor Weak EMs drag down global trade volumes World trade growth remains frail largely as a result of the continued lacklustre performance of emerging economies. However, we don’t think this is an early sign of a widespread downturn in the global... 24th November 2015 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor Advanced economy exports outshine EM exports The volume of world trade fell again in August, continuing its weak run this year. Exports from emerging economies have been particularly sluggish, although they have held up much better in volume... 23rd October 2015 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor Exporters in emerging Asia and US still struggling The volume of world trade, which has been sluggish all year, fell outright in July. The latest weakness has been concentrated in emerging economies, and Asia in particular, but exports from the US... 23rd September 2015 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor Trade rebound suggests world economy is down but not out 25th August 2015 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor World trade volume falls again World trade volumes fell sharply in May – the fourth monthly fall during the first five months of the year. This leaves trade growth lagging well behind the growth of GDP. Most of the slowdown has... 22nd July 2015 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor Weak EM exports continue to drag on world trade volumes World trade volumes edged up in April, but this follows a run of very weak data and left the year-on-year growth rate at a historically low pace. Stronger global growth during the rest of the year... 24th June 2015 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor Slowdown in world trade growth not as bad as it looks The sharp slowdown in trade growth since the start of the year partly reflects the weakening in the world economy in the first quarter. However, trade has also been depressed by a series of temporary... 22nd May 2015 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor Slowdown in world trade growth is structural Over the past four years the volume of world trade has grown at a much slower pace than prior to the financial crisis. Recent downward revisions to WTO forecasts show that the international... 23rd April 2015 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor World trade weaker in January World trade volumes fell in January, following an increase the previous month. Looking ahead, a number of factors suggest that the growth of world trade may pick up a bit in the coming months, but we... 24th March 2015 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor Exports from euro-zone and Japan a bit stronger The volume of world trade rebounded in December, but for the fourth quarter as a whole it rose only in line with global GDP. More recent data indicate that the gradual recovery in exports from the... 24th February 2015 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor Plunge in oil prices to transform global trade balances The collapse in oil prices is likely to have a much larger impact on world trade than the depreciation of the euro – even if yesterday’s decision by the ECB to launch “full-blown QE” leads to further... 23rd January 2015 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor Renewed weakness in trade Growth in the volume of world trade slowed again in October. The latest slump in the price of crude oil has not yet fed through to trade data. But when it does so, big changes in the value of trade... 19th December 2014 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor World trade rebounds, but outlook still poor Data for September showed the biggest monthly rise in world trade in over two years. What’s more, there was some progress on multilateral trade negotiations at the G-20 Brisbane summit. However, there... 25th November 2014 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor Broad-based malaise in world trade continues World trade contracted in August, and more timely data suggest that it has continued to fare badly since then. But rather than being another sign that the global economy has stalled, the slowdown in... 24th October 2014 · 1 min read
Global Trade Monitor World trade a little stronger in Q3 There was a slight pick-up in world trade in June and July, which is consistent with our view that global growth recovered in the current quarter. Nonetheless, trade is still expanding relatively... 25th September 2014 · 1 min read
