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Trump looms large over a Fed likely to again defy his call for cuts
President Trump is looming large over the Federal Reserve's policy meeting, even if the central bank does what the market expects and keeps interest rates on hold on Wednesday. Trump and other top White House officials have been hammering Fed Chair Jerome Powell for months over his wait-and-see rate stance and his insistence that more time is needed to assess how the president's tariffs will affect the path of inflation. The president took that message directly to the Fed last Thursday as he toured a $2.5 billion renovation of the central bank's headquarters and confronted Powell in person while the two argued in ... (full story)
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