{"id":387983,"date":"2018-12-06T06:08:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-business-optimism-down-fed\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T06:08:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:08:07","slug":"presstv-us-business-optimism-down-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-business-optimism-down-fed\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US business optimism down: Fed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US business optimism has waned over uncertainty caused by tariff disputes, rising interest rates and continued labor shortages, the Federal Reserve says. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most districts reported that firms remained positive; however, optimism has waned in some (districts) as contacts cited increased uncertainty from impacts of tariffs, rising interest rates, and labor market constraints,&#8221; the Fed announced Wednesday in its &#8220;beige book&#8221; survey of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came amid President Donald Trump&#8217;s punitive import tariffs in a stated effort to boost economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Higher metals prices because of import tariffs continue to be a pain point for manufacturers and construction firms,&#8221; according to reports from the Cleveland region, as cited by AFP. &#8220;There were a number of reports of tariffs leading to higher prices further down the supply chain,&#8221; including to retailers.<\/p>\n<p>The US president made steel from the European Union, Canada and Mexico subject to 25&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/06\/582109\/US-business-optimism-down-over-tariffs-Federal-Reserve\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US business optimism has waned over uncertainty caused by tariff disputes, rising interest rates and continued labor shortages, the Federal Reserve says. &#8220;Most districts reported that firms remained positive; however, optimism has waned in some (districts) as contacts cited increased uncertainty from impacts of tariffs, rising interest rates, and labor market constraints,&#8221; the Fed announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}