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Global Economy Shows Surprising Resilience to Tariffs, OECD Says

The world is weathering US trade levies better than expected.
A gantry crane lifts shipping containers to be loaded onto a ship at the APM Terminals in the Port of Callao in Callao, Peru, in November 2025.Photographer: Marco Garro/Bloomberg
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I’m Craig Stirling , a senior editor in Frankfurt. Today — together with William Horobin and Jana Randow — I’m looking at the OECD’s latest forecasts for the global economy. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net . And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here .

Anyone in the business of economic forecasting in the past decade has had a pretty wild ride. From Brexit to Donald Trump’s first stint in the White House to the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine, the global inflation shock and even the rise of Artificial Intelligence, the task of trying to make sense of a world regularly tested by jolts out of the blue has got harder.