{"id":9733,"date":"2017-11-09T12:09:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=9733"},"modified":"2017-11-09T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:09:45","slug":"us-senate-panel-sets-nov-28-confirmation-hearing-for-fed-chair-nominee-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/us-senate-panel-sets-nov-28-confirmation-hearing-for-fed-chair-nominee-powell\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate panel sets Nov 28 confirmation hearing for Fed chair nominee Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington<br \/>\nThe US Senate Banking Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on November 28 for Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, the committee said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump last week tapped Powell, 64, a Fed governor since 2012, to become head of the US. central bank, breaking with precedent by denying Janet Yellen a second four-year term but signaling a continuation of her cautious monetary policies.<\/p>\n<p>Powell is quickly garnering support from Republican lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who met with Powell on Tuesday and said he looked forward to \u201csupporting his nomination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican Senator Mike Crapo, who chairs the Banking Committee, said on Wednesday that Powell was \u201cwell-equipped to lead our economy and the country in a positive direction.\u201d Powell is widely expected to continue to raise interest rates gradually, as Yellen began to do in late 2015, and to shrink the central bank\u2019s $4.5 trillion balance sheet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington The US Senate Banking Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on November 28 for Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, the committee said in a statement on Wednesday. Trump last week tapped Powell, 64, a Fed governor since 2012, to become head of the US. central bank, breaking [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9735,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions\/9735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}