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Bessent Told Trump Not to Fire Powell, Report Says. Why His Reasons Could Boost Markets.

The President has repeatedly criticized Powell for not cutting interest rates, and he escalated his attacks on the Fed chair ...

Tariff And Powell Risk Drive Elevated Cross-Asset VRPs

While overall levels of implied volatility remain muted across asset classes, what stands out is the even lower levels of ...

A Top Fed Official Is Ready to Dissent Against Jerome Powell

In a bold and unusually direct speech to close out last week, Fed Governor Christopher Waller laid out the case for an ...

Republican lawmaker reiterates call for probe of Fed's Powell, Fox reports

Republican U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna made good on her threat last week to refer Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome ...

A ‘shadow Fed chair’? How Trump could pressure the Fed without firing Powell

Donald Trump is reportedly fuming over a Wall Street Journal report claiming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent talked him out ...

Trump: No One Needs to Explain How Firing Powell Would Affect Markets

President Trump says no one needs to explain to him that firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell would be bad for the ...

Fed reform may move markets more than Powell ouster

Changing the way the Federal Reserve operates or assesses the economy may have a more durable impact on policy and markets ...

Ahead of Jerome Powell's speech, treasury secretary Bessent calls for review of ‘entire’ Federal Reserve

Ahead of US Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s scheduled speech, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called for a comprehensive ...