Yellen will resign from Fed upon Powell swearing in

Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen will resign as a member of the Fed’s Board of Governors when Jerome Powell is sworn in as chair, the Fed announced Monday.

Yellen’s departure means there will be four openings on the Fed’s seven-member Board.

Yellen said in her resignation letter it was “a great privilege and honor” to serve in the Fed system for three decades and expressed faith in Jerome Powell’s commitment to the Fed’s mission.

Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen
Janet Yellen, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, July 13, 2017. Yellen said yesterday the U.S. economy should continue to expand over the next few years, allowing the central bank to keep raising interest rates, while also stressing a gradual approach to tightening as the Fed monitors too-low inflation. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

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