Trump Narrows Fed Chair Search

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President Donald Trump said he may name the next Federal Reserve chair “a little bit early” and added that he was down to three or four potential candidates as he looks for a successor to Jerome Powell.

“I’ll be naming a new chairman sometime within the next — I think I’ll name it a little bit early, the new chairman. I’m down to three or four names,” Trump said Wednesday during an event at the Kennedy Center in Washington, describing the contenders as “all good, all great.”

Trump has hammered Powell over the central bank’s decision to hold interest rates steady, repeatedly calling in the past for him to resign and publicly mulling whether he should fire the chair outright before saying he would wait for his term to end in May. Naming his successor while Powell is still finishing his term raises the prospect of a “shadow Fed” emerging and risks creating whiplash for investors tracking the positions of both the current and future chairs.

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