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Jerome H. Powell warned that President Trump’s tariffs could lead to a “challenging scenario” for the central bank.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke at the Economic Club of Chicago, as a tit-for-tat trade war escalates between the U.S. and China.
The consumer-price index tells us nothing about changes in affordability. We need another measure.
The minutes from the February meeting suggest the Fed could keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged if inflation remained ...
Consumer prices unexpectedly declined from a month earlier, while a fall in gasoline prices pushed the energy index lower.
The consumer price index fell in March, but President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda and the specter of a global trade war ...
Powell said the tariffs and their impacts on the economy and inflation, are “significantly larger than expected.” ...
Its main tool, manipulating interest rates, can address one of those problems at a time, potentially putting the Fed in a bind if both inflation and the job market worsen at the same time.
Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, says the central bank’s “obligation” is to ensure that a “one-time increase ...
It eased to 8.2% in March from 8.8% in the previous month. At the same time, transport inflation was also a source of slower inflation in March, as it contracted to 1.1% from the 0.2% drop in February ...
In keeping with its statements in February, the last time the MPC met, the central bank still believes domestic inflationary pressures will wane by early 2026, when they predict inflation to ...