After reaching a two-year high in January, one measure of the U.S. currency’s value has tumbled. Plus: tariffs and GDP, restaurant productivity and new tech for blind sports fans.
Employee confidence in the future of their workplace fell to a 9-year low. Plus, tariffs, prebiotic soda, grocery prices and potentially toxic wildfire debris.
High inflation expectations complicate things for Jay Powell’s Fed. Plus, banks are stuck with depreciated bonds and job searchers should prepare to be “in it for the long haul.”
The softening labor market, falling Treasury yields and a fuzzy service sector can all point to the multiplying economic unknowns. Plus, entrepreneurship booms and a soybean farmer worries.