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# Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Calls Bank CEOs Amid Wall St. Unease

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## Video: Big Losses as U.S. Markets Suffer Worst Week in Years

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_Published 2018-12-22. President Donald Trump has discussed firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as his frustration with the central bank chief intensified following this week’s interest-rate hike._


by 

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## TIME Staff


Dec 24, 2018 5:06 PM UTC

President Donald Trump has discussed firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as his frustration with the central bank chief intensified following this week’s interest-rate hike. 

by 

[TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/)


## TIME Staff


Dec 24, 2018 5:06 PM UTC

WASHINGTON — U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called the CEOs of six major banks Sunday in an apparent attempt to reassure jittery financial markets coming off a turbulent week in the stock market that is now bracing for potential repercussions from a partial shutdown of the U.S. government.

In an unusual move, Mnuchin disclosed the calls with the heads of Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo in a [tweet](https://twitter.com/stevenmnuchin1/status/1076958380361543681) about the private conversations.

Mnuchin said the CEOs all assured him they have ample money to finance all their normal operations, even though there haven’t been any serious liquidity concerns rattling the market.

Worries about slowing economic growth and rising interest rates [saddled the U.S. market with its worst week in more than seven years](https://apnews.com/ce565c1cf85941b69386bce68ceab97d). Barring a turnaround, stocks are now headed for their single worst month since October 2008, when the market was being battered by the global financial crisis. That crisis was triggered by a reckless lending spree that prompted a taxpayer-backed bailout of several U.S. banks.

But the circumstances are dramatically different now that the U.S. economy has been growing steadily since 2009\. Most experts believe the growth will continue in the U.S., but there are signs things are slowing down in Europe and China.

Dysfunction in Washington isn’t helping the situation, with a budget impasse between President Donald Trump and Congress triggering a partial U.S. government shutdown that could last into the new year.


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[00:04] Investors are very fearful that the growth of the US
[00:06] economy and the global economy are going to slow
[00:09] down a lot next year and the year after that. And that
[00:12] there could even be a recession, either in the US or for
[00:16] the entire world economy. And that leaves them with a
[00:19] lot of major questions about corporate profits and the
[00:21] stock market. Right now, they are not willing to buy or
[00:24] set limits for these declines. For major indexes, this
[00:28] was the worst week for the S & P 500 since August of
[00:31] 2011, when the markets fell very sharply because of
[00:35] the debt ceiling crisis for the federal government. The
[00:38] Federal Reserve's projections for interest rates don't
[00:41] seemed to have calmed investors down any. Some of
[00:44] them were concerned that perhaps the Fed isn't
[00:47] watching the state of the markets as closely as it could
[00:49] be, that it's not as concerned about the health of the
[00:52] economy as they are, but ultimately it's hard to find
[00:56] one concrete reason for this decline. Investigation of
[01:00] what? There are just a lot of concerns about what
[01:03] growth is going to look like with the trade tensions
[01:05] rising, and all of these other issues.

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