Trump Hesitant on Hassett, Bayer Gets High Court Hearing, More
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Monica Ricks. President Trump raised new doubts today about one of his top Fed picks.
I actually want to keep you where you are if you want to know the truth.
What concerns does President Trump have about his Fed pick Kevin Hassett?
Kevin Hassett is so good. I'm saying, wait a minute. If I move him, these Fed guys, certainly the one we have now, they don't talk much. I would lose you. It's a serious concern to me.
The president making that comment at a rural health forum this morning. But Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says he expects the president to make a decision soon.
We've run a process and it will be the president's decision in the next couple of days or weeks. I'd expected that we would here have a decision either before he leaves for Davos or when he returns.
Besant today on Fox Business. He says BlackRock's chief investment officer, Rick Reeder, met with the president yesterday. Fed governors Kevin Warsh and Christopher Waller are also said to be pretty high on Trump's shortlist. By the way, the president's also said to unveil a plan in Davos to let savers in 401k retirement plans use some of their money for down payments on new home purchases. We're told mechanics are still being worked out, but a final plan is expected sometime next week. We check the markets for you all day long here at Bloomberg. And any momentum on Wall Street dwindled after Trump's Fed comments today. The Dow lost 83 points. The Nasdaq was down about 15. The S&P was down five points.
The 10-year Treasury yield is at 4.2 percent. The two-year yield at about 3.6 percent. Shares of Bayer also fell 1.4% today after the Supreme Court agreed to hear the company's appeal to get thousands of pending lawsuits tossed over its Roundup weed killer. People have claimed for years long-term exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, causes cancer. But Bayer maintains the weed killer is safe. The Trump administration has paused its efforts to seize student debt from borrowers' paychecks. The Education Department says it's part of an effort by the White House to make a concerted push around an affordability agenda, with policy proposals aimed at easing costs for Americans ahead of midterms.
President Trump is defending his decision to hold off on attacking Iran after getting assurances that protest killings will stop there. He talked to reporters outside of the White House today about whether Israeli and Arab officials convinced him not to strike.
Nobody convinced me. I convinced myself. You had yesterday scheduled over 800 hangings. They didn't hang anyone. They canceled the hangings. That had a big impact.
But fears of a wider protest crackdown are now building in Iran, with the country now under its longest Internet blackout on record. Golnar Motivali heads Bloomberg's Iran coverage.
What President Trump does next with regards to Iran is going to be critical. Everybody's keeping a sharp eye on that. And he's kept us very busy over the past year. few days. And we're getting every day there seems to be fresh news, whether it comes to U.S. military deployments or whether it's a statement from Trump that's softer on Iran. It seems to change.
That's Bloomberg's Gholar Motivali covering Iran from London. So far, activists say about 3,500 people have been killed. The FAA is now urging U.S. airlines to exercise caution when flying over Mexico and parts of Central and South America now, citing military activities and potential interference in navigation systems in the region. The warning comes roughly two weeks after U.S. Special Forces raided Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolas Maduro. The U.S. has since indicted Maduro on four criminal counts, including narco-terrorism. Earlier today, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she's grateful to Trump for that mission. Venezuela is going to be free and that's going to be achieved with the support of the people of the United States and the president.
Machado speaking at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. today after meeting with Trump yesterday at the White House.
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