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US President Donald Trump blown up hot and cold on the future of the President of the American Federal Reserve (FED), Jerome Powell, ensuring to think about the possibility of considering the possibility as “very improbable”.
(Keystone-ATS) During a press briefing at the White House, in the presence of the Crown Prince of Bahrain Salmane Hamad Ben Issa Al-Khalifa, Mr. Trump judged that Mr. Powell “does bad job” but “does not speak” to dismiss him, after having assured a little earlier in the morning that he thought about it, then stressing that he “does not deviate anything but it is very improbable”.
It is a form of retropedage on the part of the American president, who had assured journalists earlier that he considered that the cost of renovating the Fed buildings in Washington, could be “a reason to justify a dismissal”.
The works have already cost $ 2.5 billion, according to the Management and Budget Budget (OMB) of the White House, Donald Trump seeing it as poor use of federal funds.
“I would not have imagined that he was going to spend 2.5 billion dollars to build a small extension to the Fed,” the President of the Blanche was told the press earlier in the day. “Is this a reason to justify a dismissal?” I think it can be ”.
According to the White House, the American president met on Tuesday evening Republican elected officials in order to discuss with them the subject, a source specifying to AFP that the president was reflecting to do so, even if it is not imminent.
Inflation not a problem
Trump has been criticizing Mr. Powell for several months, whom he nicknamed “Too late Powell”, for not having dropped interest rates from the Central Bank when, according to him, inflation is no longer a problem.
He thus called on Tuesday the Fed to lower its guiding rates, currently located in a range between 4.25% and 4.50%, of three percentage points.
Asked about the subject during an interview on CNBC, the director general of Goldman Sachs, David Solomon, said that it would be very bad for the president to dismiss that of the Fed “, adding that he had no immediate elements on the subject.
The financial markets have misunderstood this information. The dollar fell briefly by 1% against the euro before going up.
On the bond market, the yield of the American loan at thirty years suddenly stretched 5.07% against 5.02% the day before, before falling slightly.
Gold, refuge value par excellence, gained ground (+0.74%).
Wall Street’s stars indices also fell back in stride, before resuming somewhat after Mr. Trump’s flip-flop.