In the Market: Wall Street’s banking on next Fed chair to stand up to Trump
Yahoo Finance·2026-01-27 19:00

By Paritosh Bansal DAVOS, Switzerland Jan 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump bemoaned last week his issue with naming the next Federal Reserve chair: The problem, he said, is they change once they have the job. Wall Street is counting on it. With questions swirling around the Fed’s resilience in the face of the Trump administration’s multi-pronged assault on the institution, including probes into chair Jay Powell and governor Lisa Cook, some global ​banking executives told me on the sidelines of ...