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Key Takeaways The White House has 78 days to negotiate trade agreements with at least 57 countries to avoid imposing the "reciprocal" tariffs it announced at the beginning of April. On April 2, President Donald Trump imposed a 10% tariff on all imports, plus additional"reciprocal" tariffs against 57 countries and territories.

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Key TakeawaysIn 2025, the European Central Bank and its American counterpart have taken starkly different approaches to monetary policy. The ECB has continued to slash interest rates, while the Fed has held them steady. The diverging paths came into focus more sharply on Thursday when the ECB lowered its benchmark rate by a quarter point, the seventh decrease since June.

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The Federal Reserve appears to be bracing for a fresh surge of inflation from President Donald Trump's campaign of tariffs. In a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said officials at the central bank expect the import taxes Trump imposed this month to push up the cost of living and are determined not to let that bout of price increases turn into a prolonged period of inflation.

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New research shows that money spent on a college degree is a great investment by any standard. That's according to an analysis by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who crunched the numbers on the costs and benefits of a college education. The researchers found that for the median graduate, a college degree paved the way for better-paying jobs, equivalent to a 12.5% annual return, above the 10.1% annualized return from the S&P 500 stock index since 1957.

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Key Takeaways Financial markets may have rejoiced this week at the 90-day reprieve on President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs, but the U.S. economy still faces a similar outlook as it did before the pause. Higher consumer prices, slower growth, and an elevated risk of recession are still forecast despite Trump's withdrawal of the varied 'reciprocal' tariffs that the White House announced last week.