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White House Seizes on Fed Renovations

White House ramps up pressure on Fed's Powell three weeks before next interest rate decision

President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign against the Federal Reserve and Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates entered a new front this week

Yahoo Finance · 18m

Trump administration ramps up pressure on Powell as Fed holds rates steady

President Donald Trump has frequently voiced dissatisfaction with the Fed’s “wait-and-see" approach to lowering interest rates under Powell.

The Wall Street Journal on MSN · 2h

White House Seizes on Fed Renovations as Opening to Oust Powell

A dispute over the Federal Reserve’s renovation of its headquarters could provide the pretext to attempt the removal of Fed chief Jerome Powell over interest-rate disagreements.

Trump, Powell and Fed Rate

CNN on MSN · 8h

Trump’s increasingly aggressive attacks on Powell aren’t what you think

President Donald Trump’s attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are so commonplace at this point that they barely register in financial markets these days. The rapidly intensifying multi-pronged efforts by Trump’s advisers to amplify and expand on Trump’s attacks are a good reason to rethink that indifference.

NPR · 14h

Trump attacks Fed Chair Powell for not moving quickly to cut interest rates

NPR speaks with David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, about Trump's attacks on the Fed chair for not moving to cut interest rates.

The Washington Post on MSN · 1d

Why Powell is ignoring Trump’s push to quickly slash interest rates

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell is resisting President Donald Trump’s calls for lower interest rates, saying the Fed should not take debt and deficits into account.

22hon MSN

Trump official criticizes Fed chief Powell as Trump takes aim over interest rates

A top White House budget official said President Trump is "troubled" by Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell's management, as ...

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Will The Fed Lower Interest Rates In July? Policymakers Are Split, FOMC Minutes Show

The newly published meeting minutes highlighted a divide over how Federal Reserve officials expect the economy to respond to ...

Marketplace1h

September Fed rate cut is not a sure thing, despite market behavior

Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell has reiterated that rate decisions will be data-driven — by inflation, and employment.

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Fed Governor Waller favors cutting interest rates in July and continued shrinking of balance sheet

Federal Reserve Governor Chris Waller said on Thursday said he favors cutting the Fed's policy rate in July. He also ...

Fed Minutes Underscore Divisions Over Pace of Interest Rate Cuts

The U.S. central bank’s decision to hold interest rates steady in June was unanimously supported, but officials were starting ...

Three reasons the Fed will stand pat on interest rates

Policy is rightly locked on hold over the near-term in part because the uncertainty surrounding the Trump administration’s ...

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Why Trump might not get rapid interest-rate cuts even after he replaces Fed chief Powell

Trump hopes to get lower rates by replacing Fed Chair Jerome Powell with someone who would do what the president wants. But ...

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What Division Inside the Fed Means for Future Interest-Rate Cuts

Fed Chair Jerome Powell has sketched out new conditions that could trigger rate cuts by summer’s end, but inflation remains a ...

CNET on MSN4d

July Mortgage Forecast: Will Interest Rates Budge This Summer?

The market currently projects an interest rate cut in the fall, though two Fed officials floated the possibility of a rate ...

2don MSN

Why investors need to stop obsessing over when the Fed is going to cut interest rates next

Investors in U.S. stock markets need to stop obsessing about when, and by how much, the Federal Reserve will cut interest ...

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