Trump has said he wants lower interest rates, but he may be standing in his own way.The president said he would demand interest rates be lowered at in address to Davos last week.His policies, though,

U.S. President Donald Trump is getting his wish that interest rates drop across the world, just not at home where a strong economy and uncertainty over his own policies have set the stage for the Federal Reserve to diverge from its central bank peers.

President Trump attacking the Federal Reserve's decision Wednesday to hold interest rates in place and blaming Jerome Powell for inflation.

Fresh tariffs amid high inflation are making the Fed’s job uniquely difficult and feeding uncertainty about what to expect for interest rates this year.

Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said inflation data released on Friday was a bit better than expected and gives him comfort that inflation is on path to the 2% target, adding that he still expects the U.