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Evening Standard
Jeremy Cutler

London stocks slip after reports that Trump will fire Federal Reserve boss

The FTSE 100 faded into the close to end lower on Wednesday after a White House official told Bloomberg News that Donald Trump is likely to fire Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell.

The blue-chip index had earlier traded in the green, shrugging aside stronger-than-expected inflation data.

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