Joe Biden announces: in about four days there will be information on the appointment as Fed chairman. Biden thus offers a timeline to reassure markets that have long awaited his decision on who will lead the central bank.
In the running are
Jerome Powell and Lael Brainard
.
In addition, the American president has banned Nicaragua's president Daniel Ortega
, his wife and vice-president Rosario Murillo
from entering the US
, as well as a wide range of ministers and leaders of the country, denouncing their "attacks" on democracy.
"The repression and abuses of the Ortega government and those who support it require the United States to act," says the American president, after the disputed re-election of the Nicaraguan leader.
