Progress reducing the rise in consumer prices has stalled, with recent data coming in hotter than expected. By pressuring the Federal Reserve, Trump could reignite inflation.

Trump’s second trade war is shaping up to be much different from his first. His ambitions for a reordering of world commerce are broader, and the opposition is weaker.

CHARLESTON — West Virginia officials are in contact with the administration of President Donald Trump after an executive order issued by the president earlier this week put payments from the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act on pause.

The European Central Bank meets on Thursday for the first time since Donald Trump returned to office, leaving U.S. tariff threats looming over the euro zone's sluggish economy and potentially complicating the economic outlook.

9:30 p.m. ET (Saturday, Jan. 25): President Trump said he’d like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip — potentially moving out enough of the population to "just clean out" the war-torn area to create a virtual clean slate.

The first week of President Donald Trump’s second term brought more questions than answers on the trade front.

Two months ago, in his first network television interview after the election, Donald Trump said he owed his victory to Americans’ anger over immigration and inflation, specifically the rising cost of groceries.

The dollar firmed on Monday as traders pondered the ramifications of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff plans at the start of a week in which the Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold interest rates steady.

Trump has promised to cut regulations, impose sweeping tariffs, overhaul energy policy and lower interest rates. But not all of those measures will bring down inflation.

“Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America, and the revolution of common sense,” said Trump, who at midday Monday became only the second U.S. president to serve nonconsecutive terms, after Grover Cleveland in the late 1800s.

EUROZONE rate-setters are set to cut borrowing costs again this week, confident their efforts to lower inflation will remain on track despite the threat from US President Donald Trump’s protectionist agenda.