Stocks posted solid gains Wednesday as investors digested quarterly results from several major companies and monitored developments on the global trade front.

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President Donald Trump is planning to meet with advisers today about an unexpected open seat on the Federal Reserve Board, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler announced her resignation last week, giving President Trump the opportunity to appoint a new member to the central bank's board.

But the addition of a dovish governor to the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets policy, is unlikely to yield an immediate shift. The FOMC is composed of the seven members of the Board of ...

Amid this pressure, Mohamed El-Erian is calling on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to call it quits — becoming one of the ...

President Donald Trump's coming nomination of a new member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors will focus attention ...

Trump confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declined the role, saying, “I want to work with you,” while market-watchers ...

The full story is more complicated. Trump is broadly right on the question of how much leverage the need for foreign access ...

The President ruled out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to succeed Jerome Powell but said there are four others on his list.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is not one of them. Two under consideration are Kevin Hassett and Kevin Warsh.

I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was ...