#PowellRemarks CHICAGO, April 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday the Fed would wait for more data on the economy's direction before changing interest rates, but cautioned that President Donald Trump's tariff policies risked pushing inflation and employment further from the central bank's goals.

Powell, speaking for the first time since Trump last week paused some of the more stringent of his barrage of tariffs, also characterized the ensuing market volatility of recent weeks as a logical processing of the Trump administration's dramatic shifts in trade policy - not a sign of stress that warranted a Fed response.