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Trump Signals He'll Announce Fed Chair Pick ‘A Little Bit Early'
Trump Signals He'll Announce Fed Chair Pick ‘A Little Bit Early'

Bloomberg

time13-08-2025

  • Business
  • Bloomberg

Trump Signals He'll Announce Fed Chair Pick ‘A Little Bit Early'

President Donald Trump said he may name the next Federal Reserve chair 'a little bit early' and added that he was down to three or four potential candidates as he looks for a successor to Jerome Powell. 'I'll be naming a new chairman sometime within the next — I think I'll name it a little bit early, the new chairman. I'm down to three or four names,' Trump said Wednesday during an event at the Kennedy Center in Washington, describing the contenders as 'all good, all great.'

Markets Rattled by ‘Credible Threat' of Trump Trying to Fire Powell
Markets Rattled by ‘Credible Threat' of Trump Trying to Fire Powell

Bloomberg

time16-07-2025

  • Business
  • Bloomberg

Markets Rattled by ‘Credible Threat' of Trump Trying to Fire Powell

Once again, President Donald Trump demonstrated his power to shake up global financial markets. This time, by returning to one of his favorite topics: whether to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. In an echo of the havoc that Trump unleashed with his trade war in early April, markets were briefly turned upside-down on Wednesday after a White House official said the president was likely to soon remove Powell.

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