President Donald Trump on Friday praised economic adviser Kevin Hassett at a White House event and said he may want to keep him in his current role, as the president considers his nominee for the next Federal Reserve chair.

Trump, without explicitly stating his decision, said he'd prefer to keep Hassett in his position as top economic advisor.

The odds that Kevin Warsh could be nominated to the job spiked to 60% on the betting market Polymarket following the president’s remark.

President Donald Trump suggested he may keep Kevin Hassett in his current role as a top White House economic adviser.

The contest to become the next chair of the Federal Reserve took another turn Friday, as President Donald Trump hinted that he may want to keep economist Kevin Hassett in his current White House job.

President Donald Trump expressed reluctance toward nominating Kevin Hassett as Federal Reserve chair, casting further doubt over his search for the next head of the central bank.

President Donald Trump on Friday said he would like to keep his top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, at the White House rather than potentially nominate him to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Fe

The blowback set off by the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the central bank, has shaken up the race to replace him.