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...Like some of the leading performers of the previous generation, such as Janet Baker and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, he has won equal renown in opera, concerts and song recitals, and beyond that is becoming...
...The role of Fed vice-chair — which has previously been held by Stanley Fischer and Treasury secretary Janet Yellen, a former Fed chair — is an influential one at the central bank tasked with helping to...
...Lt General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, in charge of his father’s security and a long-whispered successor to Yoweri Museveni, was keen, said two people familiar with the sales pitch....
...The role of Fed vice-chair — at present held by Richard Clarida, and in the past by officials including Donald Kohn, Stanley Fischer and Janet Yellen — is an influential one at the central bank, with the...
...US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen has floated “friendshoring” as a compromise concept....
...Another celebration of the black figure, “LTS IV” (2014) by the Nigerian-American Toyin Ojih Odutola, sold for twice its high estimate at £300,000 (£378,000 with fees)....
...Prior to his role as number-two to former Fed chair Janet Yellen, Mr Fischer’s jobs included governor of the Bank of Israel and vice-chairman of Citigroup....
...(See this speech by former Fed vice-chair Stanley Fischer for a summary)....
...We are midway through our second courses when Janet Yellen stops me in my tracks. “This is your interview,” she says politely, “but there is an area I would like to go into.”...
...There was a period when song recitals went into the doldrums after the great recitalists of the postwar era, such as Schwarzkopf and Fischer-Dieskau, Baker and Souzay, had sung their last....
...The first is somebody to act as the driving force in promoting the events and attracting the leading singers (what names they were: Schwarzkopf, Fischer-Dieskau, Baker, Caballé, Pavarotti, and many more)...
...While serving as the number two to Fed chair Janet Yellen, he chaired the board’s committee on financial stability and its committee on economic and financial monitoring and research, according to the Fed...
...In the space of just a few months, the core of the Fed leadership is changing with the departures of chair Janet Yellen and vice-chair Stanley Fischer and next year William Dudley, president at the New York...
...The Trump administration is looking for a top-notch economist to offer backing to Mr Powell, who succeeds Janet Yellen next month....
...The vice-chair has been vacant since Mr Fischer stepped down early from the post last October....
...Janet Yellen kept the Federal Reserve on course for a further interest rate rise in March in her final meeting as chair of the central bank, with the inflation outlook strengthening and America’s jobs market...
...Janet Yellen has long believed it’s possible for “too many” Americans to have jobs....
...However further seats need filling including the vice-chair, which has been vacated by Stanley Fischer....
...The president made the announcement on Thursday, ending months of speculation ahead of the end of Janet Yellen’s first term as chair in February....
...They would join Lael Brainard and Jerome Powell in addition to Janet Yellen, whose term as chair expires in February....
...A week after the central bank announced plans to unwind its massive balance sheet starting in October, Janet Yellen is due to speak again on Tuesday while Fed vice chair Stanley Fischer will give a speech...
...Mr Fischer was also seen as more hawkish than Janet Yellen, the Fed chair, and Mr Trump has publicly voiced support for keeping interest rates low for an extended period....
...Janet Yellen and Stanley Fischer were generally both viewed as “doves” when they were nominated in 2013 and 2014....
...On top of that, Janet Yellen may well fail to win a second term as Fed chair when her current stint expires in February....
...The Fed’s powerful board also lacks a vice-chair following the early retirement of Stanley Fischer, and a number of other board seats are vacant....
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