WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday (May 29) stepped up the pressure on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates, in their first sit-down since the Republican returned to the White House in January. Trump has in recent months trained his fire on the Fed chair, whom he first nominated to lead the independent central bank back in 2017, accusing him of being "too slow" to cut rates to boost economic growth. Powell and his colleagues on the Fed's rate-setting

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