Federal Reserve Chair KEVIN WARSH held a roughly 30-minute post-meeting press
conference Wednesday, the shortest since routine chair briefings began in 2011.
He stuck to a pledge not to pre-announce Fed moves, confining comments to this
week's meeting and officials' current economic views. The Fed reordered
press-room seating alphabetically by outlet, moving AFP to the front and
shifting Wall Street Journal and Refinitiv reporters rearward. A special working
group Warsh created is reviewing the Fed's communications, including press
conferences, leaving open the possibility the briefing format could be changed
or discontinued.
