From the BBC World Service: Just hours before massive tariffs were due to take effect, the United States and China postponed the hike for another 90 days.
Although overall inflation has been high since the pandemic hit, some consumer goods and services have stagnated or gone down in price over the last five to six years.
New vessel orders were down more than 50% in the first half of this year, compared to the first half last year according to Clarksons, a ship brokerage.