Bessent Sees One or Two More Fed Chair Interviews This Week (2)

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said there are one or two more interviews this week for the next chair of the Federal Reserve, with a likely announcement by President Donald Trump sometime in early January.

“It’s at the president’s pace,” Bessent said on Fox Business Tuesday. “He has been very, very deliberate,” and also “very direct with the candidates in the interviews in terms of asking them their views on Fed policy, Fed structure, the way forward, the economy.”

The Treasury chief said his guess was an announcement will be in “early January.” He didn’t specify who is set to be ...