Renewed inflation fears, plummeting consumer confidence and rising doubts about the payoff from artificial intelligence touched off a fresh round of heavy selling in stocks Friday.
Germany's Finance Minister Joerg Kukies warned on Friday that U.S. tariffs would hit both the German and the U.S. economies and that Berlin was working to prevent an escalating trade war. Kukies made the statement to Reuters after meeting his U.S. counterpart, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and other members of the Trump administration in Washington. Export-oriented car companies in Europe, most notably Germany's big automakers, are heavily exposed.
(Reuters) -U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for the first time in three weeks, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report on Friday. The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, fell by one to 592 in the week to March 28. Baker Hughes said this week's decline puts the total rig count down 29 rigs, or 5% below this time last year.
Senators wrote to financial watchdogs to ask how they plan to oversee the Trump family’s cryptocurrency activities.
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However, Susan Collins said the inflation could be short-lived.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Another U.S. bank regulator has announced that banks do not need to receive advance permission to engage in some crypto-related activities. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced Friday that banks can engage in legally permitted activities, including those that involve cryptocurrency, without receiving prior regulatory approval and so long as they manage their risks appropriately. The move reverses previous FDIC policy, which required banks to clear any crypto activities in advance.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Reserve's seemingly locked-in path to a soft landing, already roiled by the arrival of the Trump administration, may be growing even more complicated as evidence of consumer caution about spending starts to align with new inflation risks and another jump in inflation expectations. Consumer spending and inflation data for February accentuated the point, with spending near zero once adjusted for inflation and a key measure of inflation itself increasing. "No matter how you want to slice it, it's shaping up to be a very weak quarter for real spending, and it may end up being the weakest quarter since the depths of the (pandemic) lockdowns," Inflation Insights President Omair Sharif wrote.
Consumer sentiment fell again in March as inflation expectations moved higher and consumers expressed more anxiety about the labor market and future business conditions.
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