Brazil has emerged as the main exporter, capturing 90% of global trade growth, with Thailand, China, Ukraine, and Russia also ...

The Red Sea crisis has severely disrupted global trade, increasing shipping costs, rerouting maritime traffic, and causing ...

Geopolitical uncertainty looms as South Africa braces for the 2025 Budget Speech, with potential losses from the African ...

South Africa’s rand was steady in early trade on Wednesday, as markets processed U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s comments on interest rate cuts and braced for an inflation reading ...

Experts warn that economic and political conditions, including international pressures, could lead to increased food prices ...

Annual inflation rose to 7.4% in January ... Get the best of CNBC Africa sent straight to your inbox with breaking business news, insights and updates from experts across the continent.

Inflation increases were broad-based in January, economists said, including for consumer staples like groceries and energy. Economists worry that broad disinflation is over, even as President ...

Meanwhile, the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (Cosatu ... A VAT increase will stoke inflation. Such hikes would suck money out of the economy when it is most needed to stimulate growth.

President Trump vowed on the campaign trail to lower inflation. WSJ asked a former Federal Reserve vice chair to break down the president’s available inflation-fighting tools. Photo Illustration ...

The consumer price index (CPI) increased by 0.5 percent in January to hit an annual increase of 3.0 percent after advancing by 2.9 percent in December. Economists were expecting the CPI to ...

Not money as in cash, but the supply of money, the price of money as measured by interest rates, and their impact on inflation? The answer would appear to be no after Mr. Trump called for lower ...