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Mixed Economic Signs, Trump and the Fed, Europe’s Funk: Eco Day

Mixed Economic Signs, Trump and the Fed, Europe’s Funk: Eco Day

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Good morning Americas. Here’s the latest news and analysis from Bloomberg Economics to help get your week started:

  • Global finance chiefs meeting at the IMF this week will consider a global economy that is looking less gloomy than it did only weeks ago, but still may not have the stamina to extend a recovery that’s showing signs of age
  • With his call for lower interest rates, President Donald Trump has weighed into a debate inside the Federal Reserve about what central bankers should do about sub-par inflation. It’s not totally crazy to think he’ll eventually carry the day
    • Trump “stands behind” Stephen Moore and Herman Cain, his picks for two open seats on the Federal Reserve Board, according to the top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow
    • Kudlow also said the U.S. and China are “closer and closer” to a trade deal, and that top-tier officials would be talking again this week via “a lot of teleconferencing”
  • Europe’s in a funk, but the comparisons to 1990s Japan are a bit overstated -- for now, at least. There’s also reason to consider Germany’s discouraging data as less ugly than it looks, Bloomberg Economics analysis shows
  • Meanwhile, Japan’s central bank further fueled the growing consensus that the economy has made a turn for the worse with its widest downgrade of the nation’s regional economies in six years
  • Slowing global growth could threaten central bank independence and bring calls to expand remits beyond inflation targeting, according to Fitch Ratings
  • Three months into Amir Yaron’s stewardship of Israel’s central bank, it’s what he hasn’t done that offers the best clues to the governor’s thinking
  • Singapore and broader Southeast Asia are proving resilient in the face of regional and global headwinds, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat told Bloomberg

To contact the reporter on this story: David Goodman in London at dgoodman28@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Fergal O'Brien at fobrien@bloomberg.net, Zoe Schneeweiss

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