The attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil and gas facilities in Abqaiq, which has suspended half of the kingdom’s processing — corresponding to 6% of world supply — is a blow to one of the main arteries of the global economy. The Trump administration should use the United Nations General Assembly this week in New York to marshal a global response. ...

India’s government will shortly find itself at a fork in the road. Will it choose globalisation and export-oriented growth? Or will the isolationists in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) win, and keep India out of a giant Indo-Pacific trading bloc? This weekend, New Delhi hosted negotiators for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – from the 10 members of ...

It is not easy being in Christine Lagarde’s shoes. The incoming president of the European Central Bank (ECB) has not yet presided over her first Governing Council meeting, but she will have to face down a revolt over the central bank’s decision to restart quantitative easing before she even starts. Lagarde may want to thank Mario Draghi for pushing through ...