President-elect Donald Trump has created a headache for the Federal Reserve before he's even stepped into office. Inflation, part of the Fed's dual mandate of maintaining price stability with maximum employment,

Donald Trump will enter office with big plans to make his 2017 tax cuts permanent, solve a generational migration crisis, beef up the U.S. military to face down a rising China and to remake world trade through tariffs and combative negotiation.

The incoming president is set to inherit three months of rising inflation from his predecessor, the Consumer Price Index shows.

The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold interest rates steady on Jan. 29 and resume cutting in March, according to a slim majority of economists polled by Reuters, as policymakers digest an expected barrage of new economic policies from Washington.

Donald Trump's economic plans risk reigniting US inflation, International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas told AFP, a few days before the president-elect returns to the White House.

Annual inflation ticked up for a third straight month in December as food, energy costs rose, CPI report showed. But underlying price measure eased.

Big investors are enjoying a stock market at an all-time high, driven by the tycoon’s victory. However, they are beginning to become suspicious of his costly proposals, which would drive up inflation

Economic upheaval caused by the pandemic has clouded analysts’ ability to understand the effects of the 2017 tax law. Republicans call it a huge success and want to extend it anyway.

Trump’s economic policies—such as tax cuts, deregulation, and restrictions on immigration—could drive inflation higher in the short term.

As investors the world over brace for a global trade war with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House next week, several economists and strategists believe his proposed hefty tariff hikes could well be a negotiation tool.

Analysts say the Donald Trump inauguration is already priced into crypto markets and it matters more which campaign promises he enacts.