✅ In the U.S., strong consumer spending data was recorded and personal spending inflation came in lower than expected in April

✅ An appeals court granted President Donald Trump an extension to maintain his tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, despite a prior ruling that suspended them

✅ President Trump summoned Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to a White House meeting — their first since the beginning of the administration — and told him he was making a “mistake” by not cutting interest rates