8 d. ago US Federal Reserve’s Powell may defy Trump’s pressure and hold interest rates steady

With their eye on inflation, officials are inclined to hold rates steady when they meet in Washington, defying Trump’s pressure to cut interest rates.

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2 w. ago At the rate Trump’s going, a global recession will be hard to sidestep

The fracturing of global trade, coupled with the US president’s attacks on the Federal Reserve, doesn’t bode well for the world.

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2 w. ago Trump says he has ‘no intention’ of firing US Federal Reserve chair

The US president had earlier spooked markets by saying he would like to remove central bank head Jerome Powell.

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2 w. ago Does Trump have authority to sack US Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell?

The two men are at loggerheads over interest rate cuts and Trump’s power to fire Powell is unclear as no US president has done this before.

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3 w. ago French minister warns Trump: firing Powell risks destabilising US economy

The US president has clashed with the Federal Reserve chair over interest rates, threatening ‘termination couldn’t come quickly enough’.

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3 w. ago Trump goes to war with the US Federal Reserve: a ‘recipe for disaster’?

The president’s conflict with the Fed could threaten the central bank’s independence and destabilise US financial markets, analysts warn.

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3 w. ago Trump studying whether to fire Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell, adviser says

A bid to remove Powell would threaten the Fed’s independence and could further roil markets already battered by Trump’s tariff war.

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3 w. ago Wall Street sinks after US Federal Reserve warning, as Nvidia leads decline in tech stocks

Chairman Jerome Powell says the US central bank will not intervene to calm markets roiled by Trump’s tariff war.

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last month Tariffs live: Federal Reserve threatens to step in as Trump still defends levies

Tariffs live: Federal Reserve threatens to step in as Trump still defends levies  The Independent

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