
New International Monetary Fund projections showed a global economy that was stopped in its tracks by the U.S. war in Iran.

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada speaking on Saturday at a Liberal Party convention in Montreal.

Steel pipes await export in Lianyungang, China. The countryβs trade surplus reached nearly $1.2 trillion last year as exports continued to outpace imports.

A strike on the Bapco oil refinery in Bahrain in early March. A U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz may give Iran a reason to restart attacks on energy assets throughout the Persian Gulf.