* U.S. President Donald Trump said U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s termination from his position can’t come quickly enough, arguing that the central bank should have lowered interest rates already this year, and in any case should do so now.
Trump, derisively nicknaming the Fed chairman he nominated in his first term as “Too Late,” wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform Thursday morning that “Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!”