2025-07-29
14 分钟Good morning. It's Tuesday, July 29th.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, inside the data deal between the IRS and ICE,
allegations of a car company's dark history in the Amazon and the priest who brought it to light,
and the first state to introduce health warnings for social media.
But first, it's a critical week for the U.S. economy.
A flood of economic data is coming.
New consumer confidence and spending figures,
major reports on GDP, inflation data, corporate earnings,
and a new jobs report will offer a glimpse into the state of the labor market.
Bloomberg's Sean Donnan told us these will provide a clearer picture of the impact of President Trump's sweeping tariffs,
which he started to ramp up in earnest back in April.
One of the things we're looking for there is are we seeing companies continue to hire,
particularly in the private sector, or as a lot of economists have warned,
are they just going to be kind of sitting on hiring decisions because of all the uncertainty that's created in the economy by these tariffs.
And it'll be a big week for policy decisions.
The Federal Reserve will announce its next interest rate decision tomorrow.
Trump will be closely watching.
He's expressed frustration that Fed Chair Jerome Powell hasn't lowered rates and has repeatedly threatened to fire Powell,