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US Stocks Tumble Again With Tariffs Set to Roil Global Economy

(Bloomberg) -- Another volatile day on Wall Street pushed the S&P 500 Index back to the brink of a bear market as the Trump administration doubled down on its plans to enact hefty tariffs that threaten to send the American economy into a recession.Most Read from BloombergThe Irish Hot Press Is the Low-Tech Laundry Trick the World NeedsTrump Order on CDFI Fund Risks Aid for Small Businesses, HousingThis Skinny Mexico City Tower Is Just 14 Feet Wide on One SideIn Chicago, a Former Steel Mill Looks

Fed's Daly sees time to tread slowly, carefully on policy

Though "a little concerned" that tariffs might lift inflation, at least temporarily, "with growth good and policy in a good place, we have built the time and the ability to just tread slowly and tread carefully," Daly said at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Trump announced tariffs last Wednesday that would increase import levies around tenfold to more than 20%, the highest in a century, and global stocks swooned in the days that followed on fears that the escalating trade war would cause a recession.