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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (left) is touted as a possible successor for Fed chair Jerome Powell (right).

Trump’s Treasury Secretary emerges as contender to run the Fed

A growing chorus of advisers inside and outside the Trump administration are pushing for Scott Bessent to replace Jerome Powell as the next chair of the Federal Reserve.

  • Saleha Mohsin, Nancy Cook and Joshua Green

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Brace yourself for the tariff storm: President Donald Trump holds his MAGA hat in the wind while disembarking Air Force One last month.

US inflation is the calm before Trump’s tariff storm

The US inflation rate was edging towards the Federal Reserve’s target range. Then Donald Trump launched his trade war on the rest of the world.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Fed chair Jerome Powell

Banks weigh down flat ASX; Transurban to cut 300 jobs

The bourse closed slightly higher, as US stocks drifted in mixed trading after the Federal Reserve left its main interest alone.

  • Nick Newling
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly slammed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

The Fed is waiting for the fog of Trump’s trade war to lift

The outcome of the rate-setting meeting is predictable because the outlook for the US economy is so unpredictable, thanks to the chaos from Trump’s trade war.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump at a cabinet meeting this week. Despite big disruption from his administration, markets are back to where they started.

Trump says Biden is to blame for America’s shrinking economy. The data says otherwise

The US president blames his predecessor for the sharemarket slump and the fall in America’s GDP. In reality, it’s the “dumbest trade war in history” that’s responsible.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Trump’s “Liberation Day” now seems like an aeon ago.

The Trump administration is just making it up as it goes

Donald Trump’s backflips on his astronomical China tariffs and firing Fed chair Jerome Powell show that markets can protect the world from his worst instincts – to some extent.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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President Donald Trump, the First Lady and the Easter Bunny at the annual egg roll at the White House.

Hegseth has bounced into another hot mess but Trump seems inclined to sack the wrong guy

Rather than taking a hard look at his troubled defence secretary, the president is studying how he could fire the Federal Reserve chairman for failing to cut interest rates.

  • Michael Koziol
Jerome Powell and his officials hold rates steady as they resist Donald Trump’s calls to cut borrowing costs.

Regulators warned the US bond market was vulnerable. Trump is proving them right

The world’s traditional havens in times of stress have themselves become sources of stress.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Fed chairman Jerome Powell has been reluctant to speculate about how Donald Trump’s policies might affect the central bank’s decisions.

‘If I ask him to, he’ll be out of there’: Trump says he can fire Fed boss Powell

US President Donald Trump has again taken aim at US Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell, blasting him for being too slow on lowering interest rates.

  • Jordan Fabian and Derek Wallbank
Stagflation would be the ugliest outcome for which ever party wins government.

What is stagflation, and why are we talking about it again?

The US President’s tariff war has brought back fears of stagnation and inflation, but why is it sending gold prices through the roof?

  • Nick Newling

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