{"id":19573,"date":"2025-03-28T14:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19573"},"modified":"2025-03-28T14:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:16:32","slug":"gold-grinds-higher-wall-street-falls-as-tariff-inflation-combo-hammer-end-of-week-risk-appetite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19573","title":{"rendered":"Gold Grinds Higher, Wall Street Falls As Tariff-Inflation Combo Hammer End-Of-Week Risk Appetite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Risk appetite is on track to end the week on a negative note. Investors continue to trim their equity exposure amid the threat of tariffs and a higher-than-expected increase in the Fed\u2019s most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/economics\/macro-economic-events\/25\/03\/44535109\/feds-favorite-inflation-gauge-rises-more-than-expected-in-february-casting-doubt-on-near-term-rate-cuts\">closely watched inflation metric.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index remained at a 2.5% year-over-year pace in February. Yet, the more telling core PCE measure, which strips out food and energy and is the Federal Reserve&#8217;s preferred inflation gauge, rose from an upwardly revised 2.7% in January to 2.8%, outpacing expectations.<\/p>\n<p>The uptick in core inflation dealt a blow to investor hopes for near-term interest rate cuts, reinforcing the view that the Fed is in no rush to ease policy amid persistent price pressures. <\/p>\n<p>Adding to the jitters, earlier this week, Trump&#8217;s announcement of a 25% tariff on all foreign auto imports stirred fears of retaliatory trade measures and higher consumer prices.<\/p>\n<p>Investors &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/government\/regulations\/25\/03\/44536670\/gold-grinds-higher-wall-street-falls-as-tariff-inflation-combo-hammer-end-of-week-risk-app\" alt=\"Gold\" grinds higher wall street falls as tariff-inflation combo hammer end-of-week risk appetite>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Risk appetite is on track to end the week on a negative note. Investors continue to trim their equity exposure amid the threat of tariffs and a higher-than-expected increase in the Fed\u2019s most closely watched inflation metric. The latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-19573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}