TRADING DAY Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Jamie McGeever, Markets Columnist Another batch of upbeat U.S. economic data including solid retail sales boosted risk appetite on ...

President Donald Trump this week said he had discussed with a group of Republican lawmakers the possibility of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, before walking back such plans, calling them ...

Top voices on Wall Street have expressed alarm over the idea that Trump could fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell, emphasizing the ...

The president reportedly brandished a letter firing the Fed chair, then backed off, saying he likely wouldn’t dismiss him ...

After reports that President Trump planned to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sent markets lower, the president denied the reports, fueling a rebound. Wall Street experts are coming out in ...

In 1997, billionaire Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein hired a then-relatively unknown member of the George H.W. Bush ...

Trump has called for aggressive cuts. Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets rates, have taken a wait-and-see approach on interest rates, partly due to concerns about how Trump's ...

Some of the biggest names on Wall Street are getting louder about the importance of an independent Federal Reserve as the White House pressure on Jerome Powell intensifies.

Fed independence is ‘something we should fight to preserve,’ says David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs. The nation’s biggest ...

Whether Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is fired next week, forced to resign in six months or allowed to muddle through to the end of his term next May, the supposedly sacrosanct notion of Fed ...

Donald Trump's threat to fire the head of the Federal Reserve, America's central bank, is a financial train wreck unfolding ...