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President Donald Trump on Friday fired a top Labor Department official on the heels of a market-shocking weak scorecard of ...
"No, I don’t feel sorry for Jerome Powell. He’s worth over $200 million. Who I feel sorry for are the Americans who can’t get a mortgage." ...
Two Trump-appointed Fed governors, Michelle Bowman and Christopher Waller, dissented from Powell’s decision on Wednesday, ...
Trump ousts top Labor official over weak jobs report and seizes surprise opportunity to influence Fed policy with early board ...
Stocks slumped and Treasury yields fell sharply Friday (August 1) after a weak report on hiring and the latest gyrations in ...
The American jobs market has been slowly cooling as uncertainty about the direction of the economy weighs on employers. On Friday morning, the Labor Department will release a fresh snapshot of the ...
President attacks ‘disaster’ Fed chair as his weak jobs report and punishing levies see US dollar slide and global stocks tumble - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he is ‘disappointed’ after ...
President Trump on Friday morning fumed at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, urging the central bank board to wrest ...
Trump's executive order late Thursday laid out rates to be applied against nearly 70 countries, ranging from 10% to 41% in ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported earlier on Friday that the US had added 73,000 jobs in July, far lower than expected.
That morning, the U.S. Federal Reserve had surprised markets with a hawkish tone following stronger-than-expected job data.