A month ago, all anyone in markets could talk about was Donald Trump and how his blueprint for the US economy would sow growth, next year and beyond.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday it's too soon to say what President-elect Donald Trump's proposed economic policies will do to the economy and how that might bear on the central bank's policy choices.

The dollar is headed for its best quarter since 2022, with the currency climbing to a two-year high this week as a resilient US economy and a hawkish Federal Reserve outlook have bolstered its appeal.

The President-elect takes office in a month, but his influence on policy is already being felt by investors and across Washington.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell had to be thinking the same thing when he delivered a sober assessment of the challenges the U.S. economy faces in the coming year following the central bank's unpopular rate cut Wednesday in Washington.

As many economists know, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and the US President-elect Donald J. Trump do not see eye to eye on practically everything. The political “indifference” is nothing short of pronounced;