"It's still a very strong Trump news cycle. The last thing Powell wants to do is to kind of paint a target on the Fed" by suggesting in any way that interest-rate policy "could interfere with the ...
Short-term Treasury yields fell slightly after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell downplayed a language change in the Fed's policy statement. Asked about a change to the policy statement that removed ...
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Jerome H. Powell has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB) since May 25, 2012, appointed by then-President Barack Obama to fill an unexpired term. He was ...
Powell's term as chair ends in May 2026, when Trump can name a replacement.Until then, Trump's comments Thursday suggest he expects to regularly second-guess the Fed in public, despite a decades ...
This is also the first interest rate decision of the US central bank since Donald Trump took charge as the 47th US President ...