Why Trump keeps attacking the US central bank
The US central bank is one of Trump’s favourite punching bags. But how serious is the threat?
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Few policymakers mention US president by name, but his tariffs dominate IMF-World Bank meeting
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Kristalina Georgieva’s favourite film, the International Monetary Fund boss told the audience at a packed panel event in Washington on Thursday, is Tom Hanks’s cold war romp Bridge of Spies.
In one of the stranger digressions in a frequently strange week, Georgieva recalled the moment when Hanks’s character, a US lawyer, tells the Soviet spy he has been appointed to defend that he will probably be executed. “You don’t seem alarmed,” Hanks says to him; to which the spy – played by Mark Rylance – replies, “Would it help?”
Reeves highlights importance of EU trade to Britain before US tariff talks
In Washington, UK chancellor stresses work being done to improve economic links with Europe
Rachel Reeves has said the UK’s trading relationship with the EU is “arguably even more important” than that with the US, as she prepared to lobby her American counterpart, Scott Bessent, over tariffs.
Speaking in Washington, the British chancellor told the BBC she was keen to see trade barriers with the US come down.
FCA under fire for belated Woodford disclosure
UK financial watchdog only recorded planned enforcement against former star stockpicker on its register list this week
As policymakers leave IMF-World Bank talks, they take with them a sense of foreboding
Institution leaders sought to reassure delegates there was no need for panic despite uncertainty caused by Trump
Kristalina Georgieva’s favourite film, the International Monetary Fund boss told the audience at a packed panel event in Washington on Thursday, is Tom Hanks’s cold war romp Bridge of Spies.
In one of the stranger digressions in a frequently strange week, Georgieva recalled the moment when Hanks’s character, a US lawyer, tells the Soviet spy he has been appointed to defend that he will probably be executed. “You don’t seem alarmed,” Hanks says to him; to which the spy – played by Mark Rylance – replies, “Would it help?”
Inflation job nearly done but tariff risks loom — What European Central Bank members said this week
On tariffs, one central banker said: “In the short run, we will have lower growth. We will probably also have lower inflation.”