• Apr 16, 2025

Fed’s Powell warns tariffs may upset inflation-growth balance

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell expressed concern over achieving the central bank’s dual mandate as tariffs are likely to drive inflation higher while weakening economic growth. His comments added further pressure on US stock markets and the US dollar on Wednesday.View on euronews

  • Apr 16, 2025

China stocks face risk of $800 billion US outflows, Goldman says

(Bloomberg) -- US investors could be forced to offload around $800 billion of Chinese equities “in an extreme scenario” of financial decoupling between the world’s two largest economies, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimates. Most Read from BloombergTrump Signs Executive Orders on Federal Purchasing, Office SpaceHow Did This Suburb Figure Out Mass Transit?DOGE Places Entire Staff of Federal Homelessness Agency on LeaveWhy the Best Bike Lanes Always Get BlamedLA County Floats Leaner Budget Burdened

  • Apr 16, 2025

Why Elon Musk installed his top lieutenants at a federal agency you probably haven't heard of

On the rooftop patio of the General Services Administration headquarters, an agency staffer recently discovered something strange: a rectangular device attached to a wire that snaked across the roof, over the ledge and into the administrator’s window one floor below. It didn’t take long for the employee — an IT specialist — to figure out the device was a transceiver that communicates with Elon Musk’s vast and private Starlink satellite network. The Starlink equipment raises a host of questions about what Musk and his efficiency czars are doing at GSA, an obscure agency that is playing an outsized role in the Trump administration’s quest to slash costs and bring the federal government to heel.

  • Apr 16, 2025

Stocks, dollar drift as US-Japan trade talks in focus

Asian equities edged higher on Thursday, while the dollar firmed slightly as traders took stock of trade negotiations between the U.S. and Japan even as uncertainties around tariffs implemented by President Donald Trump kept sentiment fragile. Investors were also digesting comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who warned of the risk of slowing growth and rising prices due to tariffs, while gold prices scaled record highs again on safe-haven flows. Japan's Nikkei rose 0.7% while the yen weakened as Japan kicked off talks with the United States.