What Is Trump Thinking With His Interest Rate Strategy?

What Is Trump Thinking With His Interest Rate Strategy?

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BOJ's tightening campaign gets help from Trump and unions

TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan's uphill campaign to normalize monetary policy has recently received much needed help from two sources: labor unions that h

Trump's Trade Salvos Test Nerves of Central Bankers

(Bloomberg) — An anxious sense of wait-and-see may emerge from central banks in the coming week, in their first collective assessment of how President Donald Trump’s trade policies are impacting the world economy.

Can these two men find some middle ground to keep world trade moving?

We have a new magazine launching today, designed to give the shipping industry an idea of how the markets might play out in the coming months. Today’s opening instalment looks at the trajectories of the world’s two largest economies. Economists have been left flabbergasted by the opening months of Donald Trump’s return to power in the US, the international rulebook torn up, policies raining in and often being rescinded by the hour. Making a call…

(March 14, 2025) The change in the exchange rate in Peru by April 2025 will be influenced by US trade policy under the administration of Donald Trump and his interaction with the Federal Reserve (FED). READ ALSO: Proposals against the expansion of bureaucratic obstaclesWhile the government seeks to strengthen domestic production through trade restrictions, the Fed follows a different strategy, focused on controlling inflation and minimizing glob…

Trump’s Trade Salvos Test Nerves Of Central Bankers

An anxious sense of wait-and-see may emerge from central banks in the coming week, in their first collective assessment of how President Donald Trump’s trade policies are impacting the world economy.While officials from Washington to London and Tokyo have already set borrowing costs once since the US president entered the White House in January, those decisions preceded a marked escalation in his rhetoric and measures against neighbors, allies a…