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Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm Roger Herring and on this edition shares drop heavily on Wall Street as investors worry about the future of the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
The US Vice President is in India on holiday but also talking to the Prime Minister there about trade ties.
Plus how smuggling in West Africa is costing governments billions at a time of increasing concern over global trade.
People are bringing in a lot of cosmetics, food, alcohol,
and then increasingly we also see high value smuggling of gold and other things, cocoa.
And the plight of those forced to work in scam centres,
as the US UN says the phenomenon is growing right across the world.
But first, big falls on Wall Street as the week begins.
The S&P 500 closed down 2.3% after steadying along with other indexes from losses steeper than 3%.
In markets, a bit thinned by the absence of numerous overseas markets that remain close for Easter.
The Nasdaq fell 2.5%, the Dow Jones 2.4%.
And the reason for all this seems to be the Trump administration's desire to replace the chairman of the Federal Reserve,
Jerome Powell.
The president said of Mr. Powell in the Post on Truth Social,
the US economy is headed for a slowdown,
quote, unless Mr. Too Late, a major loser, lowers interest rates now.
And it's being reported that government officials are trying to see
if they have the power to remove the head of the US central bank,