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title: "UN agency forecasts slower global growth due to energy shock"
description: "Most outlets reported the UN agency's projection of slower global economic growth in 2026, citing the energy shock from the Middle East crisis as the primary cause. Both excerpts led with the 2.6% growth forecast and attributed the slowdown to rising energy costs, with similar phrasing and emphasis on the impact of the regional conflict."
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# UN agency forecasts slower global growth due to energy shock

business · updated 9 Oct 2026, 4:27 PM PKT · 9 Oct 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Most outlets reported the UN agency's projection of slower global economic growth in 2026, citing the energy shock from the Middle East crisis as the primary cause. Both excerpts led with the 2.6% growth forecast and attributed the slowdown to rising energy costs, with similar phrasing and emphasis on the impact of the regional conflict.

## Same story from 2 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **Minute Mirror** — [Global growth set to cool to 2.6% on energy shock,...](https://minutemirror.com.pk/global-growth-set-cool-2-641883/) · 9 Oct 2026, 4:27 PM PKT
  > Global growth is on course to ease to 2.6% this year, a UN agency said, blaming soaring energy costs from the war in the Middle East.
- **Business Recorder** — [World economic growth to slow to 2.6% in 2026, UN trade body says](https://www.brecorder.com/news/40443454/world-economic-growth-to-slow-to-26-in-2026-un-trade-body-says) · 9 Oct 2026, 3:59 PM PKT · 82% identical wording to the newest filing
  > Global economic growth will likely slow to 2.6% in 2026, down from 2.9% last year, as the energy shock from the crisis in the Middle East is putting the global economy to the test, the United Nations agency for trade and development said on Friday. Trade in goods and services is expected to expand by 4% in constant prices, after global trade reached a record $35 trillion in 2025, but the projec...

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