• Mar 04, 2025

Fed’s Williams Says Tariffs Will Likely Boost US Inflation

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said he anticipates tariffs will contribute to inflation, but emphasized there is a lot of uncertainty about how the economy will respond to President Donald Trump’s levies. Most Read from BloombergHow Upzoning in Cambridge Broke the YIMBY MoldRemembering the Landscape Architect Who Embraced the CityNYC’s Finances Are Sinking With Gauge Falling to 11-Year LowUS Tent Facility is Holding Migrant Families Longer Than Recommende

  • Mar 04, 2025

Trump wants a strategic crypto reserve. Here's how that might work

President Trump has unveiled a new proposal for a strategic crypto reserve, shifting his focus from a Bitcoin-only reserve to a more diversified approach. His plan involves a reserve comprising Bitcoin — often dubbed “digital gold” for its inflation-hedging properties — alongside Ether, XRP, Solana, and Cardano.

  • Mar 04, 2025

What Trump's tariffs mean for markets

The tariff move by U.S. President Donald trump fueled investor worries about the impact on the economy, and also weakened the dollar as investors moved into safe haven Treasuries, pushing yields lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average unofficially closed down 1.63%, the S&P 500 down 1.3% and the Nasdaq Composite, down 0.34%.

  • Mar 04, 2025

Parts of US Treasury market show concern about Fed rate-cutting pause

Parts of the U.S. Treasury yield curve are reflecting increasing concerns that the Federal Reserve will wait too long before resuming interest rate cuts as economic growth slows. The spread between yields of two-year and five-year notes is trading at around 3 basis points after very briefly turning negative last week for the first time since mid-December. This part of the curve is worth watching because durable inversions have preceded major economic contractions and stock market declines for the past 35 to 40 years, said Tom Fitzpatrick, head of global market insights at R.J. O'Brien.

  • Mar 04, 2025

Fed's Williams: Tariffs are inflation risk, rate policy in good place

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said Tuesday he expects Trump administration tariffs to drive up inflation to some degree, while reckoning that for now, central bank interest rate policy is in the right place and does not need to be changed. “My view is, based on what we know today, given all the uncertainties around that, I do factor in some effects from tariffs now on inflation, on prices, because I think we will see some of those effects later this year,” Williams said at an event held by Bloomberg in New York. The official noted that tariffs that hit consumer goods could flow though quickly to inflation while other parts of the economy might see a slower moving impact.