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Middle East crisis live: US claims blockade has ‘completely halted economic trade’ into Iran, as Trump hints at return to talks in Pakistan

International Monetary Fund (IMF) [cut its growth forecasts for 2026](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/14/iran-war-global-recession-imf-uk-growth-forecasts-oil-prices) based on the impact

Trump warns US-UK trade deal ‘can always be changed’ with relations in ‘sad state’

International Monetary Fund, is set to meet her US counterpart, Scott Bessent, the US treasury

Reeves arrives at IMF with little leeway to prove its UK downgrade wrong

International Monetary Fund’s verdict](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/14/iran-war-global-recession-imf-uk-growth-forecasts-oil-prices) is that Britain is the G7’s biggest

Trump’s push to cut interest rates has echoes of ‘banana republic’, says Yellen

International Monetary Fund’s spring meetings. The Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, gave a speech

Reeves gives more energy bill support to businesses as Iran war pushes up costs

International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week, the chancellor said: “This government has the right plan

Economic shock from Iran war risks driving up global debt levels, says IMF

International Monetary Fund has warned. Against a volatile backdrop of [the Middle East conflict](https://www.theguardian.com

Big US banks rake in near-$50bn profit as Iran war shakes markets

International Monetary Fund [said on Tuesday](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/14/iran-war-global-recession-imf-uk-growth-forecasts-oil-prices) that a further escalation of the Iran

Reeves steps up criticism of Trump’s Iran war, branding it a ‘mistake’

International Monetary Fund and the [World Bank](https://www.theguardian.com/business/worldbank) to “deliver that fair message

Finance ministers and top bankers raise serious concerns about Mythos AI model

International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Washington DC this week. "Certainly it is serious enough

Ukraine war briefing: €90bn EU loan for Ukraine to be released in second quarter

International Monetary Fund and World Bank’s spring meetings, which brought finance ministers, central bankers

What is Claude Mythos and what risks does it pose?

International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Washington DC this week. "Certainly it is serious enough

Central bank bosses enlist for war game to gauge threat of Lehman-style bust

International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings](https://www.theguardian.com/business/imf) this week, including warning

What people in power think the impact of the Iran war will be

International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank – taking place in Washington DC just down the road

Falling fertility, debt and AI: is the US headed toward a population crisis?

International Monetary Fund](https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/publications/fiscal-monitor/2026/april/english/execsumch1-combined.pdf), and is set to reach 100% by 2029, one year

Quarter of a million people could lose job by middle of 2027 as UK ‘flirts with recession’, analysis says

International Monetary Fund showed the UK [faced the biggest growth downgrade](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/14/iran-war-global-recession-imf-uk-growth-forecasts-oil-prices) among

UK unemployment shows surprise fall to 4.9% as pay growth drops to lowest in five years

International Monetary Fund warned that [UK faced the biggest growth downgrade among the G7 group

Iranian FM Araghchi to visit Pakistan as talks with US set to resume

International Monetary Fund programme. Petrol prices have risen by at least 14 percent, and rolling

Lloyds takes £151m hit from Iran war as it forecasts rise in UK unemployment

International Monetary Fund earlier this month. Lloyds forecasts include a rise in the UK unemployment

UK steps up plans for potential shortages caused by Iran war

International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v670qwz97o) the energy shock from the Iran war would

Rachel Reeves considering rent freeze to limit Iran war fallout

International Monetary Fund [warned this month](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/14/iran-war-global-recession-imf-uk-growth-forecasts-oil-prices) that the UK would suffer the sharpest