Interest Rates

Referring to yesterday’s inflation report and calling the Fed chair “Too Late Powell,” the president said on social media that waiting to understand tariffs’ effect on prices is “not fair to America.”

Muted U.S. inflation suggests companies are feeling little urgency so far to pass along the cost of tariffs to consumers.

<figure id="feature" align="aligncenter" width="767"><img class="size-full bsp-feature" src="https://k2-prod-alm.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/brightspot/95/c0/7c99216c423595a23643845e370e/050725-bloomberg-fed.jpg" />The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C. Photographer: Erin...

Recent research from Chatham Financial indicates where companies face exposures and how they’re mitigating the risk.

<i>Many companies mitigate the interest rate risk of their cash balance plans with floors using a binary approach. Here’s a better option.</i>

Although U.S. interest rates are sitting at 23-year highs, the pockets of pain they are causing are nothing like the systemic problems that so often wrecked expansions in the past.