New Fed governor says was not told how to vote by Trump

Stephen Miran, who was Donald Trump's pick to join the Federal Reserve's board of governors, said the US president did not ask him to take particular actions ahead of this week's interest rate meeting Brendan SMIALOWSKI

Donald Trump's pick to join the US Federal Reserve said Friday that he did not speak to the president about how to vote on interest rates ahead of the central bank's meeting this week.

In an interview with CNBC, Stephen Miran said that "the president called me to say 'congratulations.' He didn't ask me to do any particular actions. I didn't commit to doing any particular actions."

He said that he would carry out "independent analysis" based on his interpretation of the economy.

Miran was the sole dissenter to the Fed's decision this week to cut interest rates by a qua