美聯儲理事巴爾：美聯儲的獨立性幫助我們更好地服務於美國人民。

Japan's finance minister Katayama said the yen's broad undervaluation is a problem.

AP reports the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps urged Americans to take to the streets to protest President Trump and what the IRGC called a US war on Iran, saying the Trump administration has already "lost" the conflict. IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohhebi accused the US of "bellicose" policies, said Americans should denounce their leaders' choices, and alleged the US is using Iran's nuclear program as a pretext to plunder Iranian wealth and try to reduce Iran to a colony.