Coming up at 1415 US ET (which is 1915 GMT) the U.S. Senate banking committee is to vote on Federal Reserve nominees

  • Jerome Powell as Fed Chair
  • Lael Brainard as Fed Vice Chair
  • and new nominees to the Board of Governors Lisa Cook, Philip Jefferson and Sarah Bloom Raskin.

I suspect they'll be approved but there is scope for some of the obstreperous Senators to throw a spanner in the works.

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