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...“I don’t have anything against the AstraZeneca vaccine,” said Jérôme Marty, who heads a French doctors’ union....
...Jean Boivin, former deputy governor of the Bank of Canada and now head of research for the BlackRock Investment Institute, co-authored the paper with Stanley Fischer and Philipp Hildebrand....
...(See this speech by former Fed vice-chair Stanley Fischer for a summary)....
...His words come as Donald Trump considers several contenders to fill the powerful position vacated by Stanley Fischer, the former vice-chair, who left last October....
...The early departure of Stanley Fischer as vice-chair last month opened up an additional vacancy, in addition to two other posts that are vacant....
...He will fill a role vacated by Stanley Fischer last year....
...If approved by the US Senate, he would fill a role vacated by Stanley Fischer....
...In Jerome Kern (what a fabulous song “All the Things You Are” is) and Richard Rodgers they had the audience eating out of their hands. ★★★★☆ roh.org.uk...
...The vice-chair has been vacant since Mr Fischer stepped down early from the post last October....
...The White House is also considering candidates to replace Stanley Fischer, the former vice chairman, who retired in October of last year....
...His words come as Donald Trump considers candidates to fill the position vacated by Stanley Fischer, the former vice-chair, who left last October....
...The early departure of Stanley Fischer as vice chair this month opened up an additional post, in addition to two others that are vacant. Mr Powell has been a serving Fed governor since 2012....
...The White House is on the hunt for board members including a successor to Stan Fischer, who stepped down as Fed vice-chair in October, and the powerful New York Fed needs to replace Mr Dudley when he retires...
...The position of vice chair of the Fed is open following the retirement of Stanley Fischer, while Ms Yellen’s term as chair ends in February....
...As well as Ms Yellen’s impending departure, Stanley Fischer, the Fed vice-chair, is set to take early retirement....
...The decision means Mr Trump will have four vacancies on the Fed’s seven-person board to fill, one of which is the position of vice-chair, which was vacated by Stanley Fischer in October....
...The resignation of Stanley Fischer as vice-chair has given Mr Trump an extraordinary opportunity to reshape the leadership of the central bank in the coming months, with up to four seats open....
...He has been very careful to support the mainstream Yellen/Fischer view on monetary policy, and clearly favours a gradual increase in rates, subject to the behaviour of inflation....
...Including the promotion of Jerome Powell to Chair, six of the seven board members will have been nominated by the current administration when the process is completed next year....
...Jerome Powell, a current Fed board member regarded as a centrist, remained the favourite with a 53 per cent chance....
...They would join Lael Brainard and Jerome Powell in addition to Janet Yellen, whose term as chair expires in February....
An FT guide to the 2017 voting members of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee
...“(I)t is possible that five members of the board will be Trump appointees in less than eighteen months’ time,” particularly if Ms Yellen and Stanley Fischer, the Fed’s current vice-chair, step down when...
...Of the other two board members, Jerome Powell can stay, should he so choose, until 2028, while Lael Brainard can stay until 2026....
...The latter factor was cited by Stanley Fischer, the Fed vice-chair, who on Friday afternoon added his voice to those signalling a march rise....
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