The U.S. Senate is expected to confirm Kevin Warsh as chair of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, putting the 56-year-old lawyer and financier at the helm as the U.S. central bank grapples with intensifying inflation that may make it hard to push through the interest-rate cuts that President Donald Trump has demanded. A Senate vote is for 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT), following Tuesday's vote in the Republican-majority body approving Warsh's appointment to the Fed's seven-member Board of Governors. His swearing-in to both positions would then await final White House signatures on paperwork sent by the Senate. Warsh will take ... (full story)