Fed Officials Keep Door Open to Resumption of Easing, But Patient For Now

– Daly, Goolsbee, Collins, Bostic, Bowman All in Cautious ‘Wait and See’ Mode By Steven K. Beckner (MaceNews) – Federal Reserve officials have been united in supporting the Federal Open Market Committee’s decision to leave interest rates unchanged when the Fed’s rate-setting body met last Wednesday, but their seeming unanimity tends to fade into uncertainty […]

TARIFFS STATE OF PLAY: CHINA Tightens Restrictions on Rare Earth Exports to USA Among Tariff Retaliations

WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – In what analysts have said is a measured response, intended not to further escalate U.S.-China trade tensions, China nevertheless Tuesday has imposed some significant new penalties. Chief among them are export controls on several rare-earth minerals important to the U.S. manufacture of high-tech products. They include indium, bismuth, molybdenum, tellurium and tungsten. […]