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NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices edged higher on Thursday and hovered near one-month highs on concerns about global supply, but new U.S. tariffs and their expected effect on the world's economy limited gains. Brent crude futures rose 9 cents, or 0.1%, to $73.88 a barrel by 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT). On Wednesday, oil prices rose about 1% to their highest since February.

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LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump emerged as one of the biggest threats hanging over the British economy on Wednesday, when the country's fiscal watchdog said slow growth and a heavy debt burden made it especially vulnerable to his proposed tariffs. Finance minister Rachel Reeves delivered a politically unpopular cut to the welfare budget and other reductions in her spending plans, all to keep the economy on track for a key fiscal target that was designed to reassure investors after short-lived former Prime Minister Liz Truss's market meltdown of 2022. But the country's independent fiscal watchdog said a global trade war could reduce economic output, while a rise in Bank of England interest rates and gilt yield expectations could wipe out her small headroom against that fiscal target.

Risks have increased that U.S. inflation will stall above the Federal Reserve's 2% target or even rise further in the near term, with rising import taxes potentially triggering more persistent price pressures, St. Louis Fed president Alberto Musalem said on Wednesday. Musalem said that while the initial direct effect of import taxes, also known as tariffs, could be short-lived, he was "wary" to think it would all fade away without influencing underlying inflation in a way that could force the Fed to react. If it pushes inflation expectations and prices higher in a consistent way, Musalem said, it may even require the Fed to consider tighter monetary policy down the road, though that is not his baseline outlook.