Kevin Warsh’s Fed nod sends gold plunging and chops 31.4% off silver as dollar strengthens in Friday trading
TeslaTesla(US:TSLA) Fortune·2026-01-31 15:35

Financial markets churned on Friday as investors tried to figure out what President Donald Trump’s new nominee to lead the Federal Reserve will mean for interest rates.U.S. stocks fell, with the S&P 500 down 0.4% after sinking as much as 1.1% earlier in the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 179 points, or 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite lost 0.9%.The value of the U.S. dollar rallied, but only after swiveling a couple times following Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh. And some of the wildest actio ...