LIVE: U.S. markets react as Trump’s Powell attacks add to investors’ concerns

Balazs Barabas

Watch live coverage as stocks react once again after National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said Friday that President Trump was studying if removing Fed Chair Jerome Powell was a possibility. (Markets were closed Friday for Good Friday.) Monday’s sell-off also comes hours after President Trump continued to ramp up his attacks on the Fed Chair on social media, calling him a “major loser” and demanding that he “lowers interest rates, NOW.” Powell has repeatedly said that he would not