WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump says he is “very, very close” to naming the next Federal Reserve chief, building suspense toward perhaps the most consequential decision he has left to make in 2017.

But the sweepstakes to pick the new Fed chair, likely to be decided before Trump departs for Asia in 10 days, finds the new president pulled in different directions.

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