U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gets chance to address trade war, stagflation fears

Open this photo in gallery: U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference in Washington, on Jan. 29.Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press A soft landing from inflation may still be in sight, but when Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks in New York on Friday he will be facing a tangled set of new risks to that long-sought goal, from a global trade war that could reignite price pressures to hints public expectations may be shifting in a bad way for the U.S. central bank. Powell will deliver his remarks to an economic conference just ahead of the…