In his stinging monthslong campaign to badger Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell into lowering interest rates, President Donald Trump has relied on a variety of arguments. He's pointed to the European Central Bank's two percentage points of rate cuts and a report showing weakening private-sector job growth.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would "love" if Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell were to resign, and the president also said he wanted interest rates cut to 1%. KEY QUOTES "I'd love him to resign if he wanted to,