Trump's remarks come five days before the Fed's first policy meeting to be held during his administration - on Jan. 28 and 29 - with very broad expectations officials will leave rates unchanged.

The Federal Reserve in the US meets in the coming week, and there’s a good chance it leaves policy settings unchanged. That would see the upper bound of the Fed Funds Rate, the US version of our Official Cash Rate (OCR),

President Donald Trump’s demands of lower interest rates are running into a Federal Reserve that has already dialed back its expectations about cutting rates and an economy that has