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2026April › 14

IMF

3 months ago

Donald Trump urged the UK to 'drill, baby, drill' after the IMF warned Britain will suffer the biggest economic shock in the G7 from the Iran war.
Higher global inflation forecast at 4.4 percent, up 0.6 points, driven by surging oil, gas and fertiliser costs.
The Fund's scenarios range from the Not Good through the Bad to the Exceedingly Ugly.

Growth forecasts cut for US and global economy, while UK suffers sharpest downgrade in G7

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A further escalation in the Iran war could trigger a global recession, spirallin…

The IMF said that the U.K. will be hardest hit out of all developed economies as a result of the Iran war.
In a damning report, the global watchdog said it now expects the UK economy to grow by just 0.8 per cent this year.
The financial body cuts its growth forecast for the UK and warns the war threatens to throw the global economy "off course".

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