Investors unnerved by trump’s attempt to oust federal reserve governor

“We’ll have a majority [on the Federal Reserve Board] very shortly… People are paying too high an interest rate… We have to get the rates down a little bit,” says Donald Trump. The US president isn’t

Issue of the week: the battle for the ...

IN NORMAL TIMES, THE FIRST Friday of the month brings a routine tranche of government data known as the monthly jobs report. The markets react, the politicians preen, and most Americans go about their

Over the past couple of weeks, we have seen unusually open debates and divergent views about the path of short-term interest rates among the committee members of the US Federal Reserve (the Fed) and t

Paris Confidence vote: France seemed to be heading ...

Increasingly, it seems there is no fundamental case for a cut