Thursday, September 24, 2015

Fed Chair Yellen receiving medical attention after speech

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen received medical attention on Thursday after struggling to finish a speech at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, coughing and pausing to recompose herself a few times before walking off stage.

Yellen, who had been speaking for roughly an hour to as many as 1,800 students and local residents, appeared to lose her place in reading the last few lines of her speech on inflation. She abruptly said: "Let me stop there."

The chairman of the university's economics department, Michael Ash, appeared at her side, asking: "You ok?" and offering to escort her off the stage .... http://www.reuters.com